Tourism: The total comeback of Greece’s “heavy industry”

The resurgence of tourism, what many call Greece's heavy industry, signals the total recovery of the Greek economy, as everything shows that revenues will exceed those of  2019, which was a record year.

Specifically, travel receipts - according to industry authorities - may even top 20 billion euros, a level that even the most optimistic pundits did not expect.

Many destinations are already confirming the recovery of the sector after two difficult years, with the divs showing that the target of approaching the results of 2019 has already been achieved and is now breaking one record after another.

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Dodecanese

Rhodes more than doubled the growth rate recorded during the first months of the season to 18% with 173,205 passengers, compared to 146,605 in the first ten days of July 2019. Kos also surpassed 2019's performance for the corresponding period by 13%, attracting 83,667 in just ten days, from 73,766 in the year before the pandemic.

As dimokratiki.gr reports, the data from the two international airports of the Dodecanese point in the same direction. With a total of 2,403 flights in just the first ten days of July, Rhodes receives an average of 106 aircraft per day, Kos 54, remaining unaffected by the delays and cancellations at international airports abroad for the time being. In the period January-June 2022, 854 thousand international air arrivals were registered at Rhodes airport, showing an increase of 56 thousand or 7.0%. The impressive divs do not even include the arrivals with connections from the airports of Greece.

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