Tourism heads for record season

Greek tourism showed one of the strongest growth rates worldwide during the first quarter of this year, significantly surpassing even the record levels of the first quarter of 2019. While important international destinations, especially in the American continent and Asia, but also Europe, have not yet fully recovered the levels of arrivals of the pre-pandemic period, Greece is recording new historical highs and indeed in a period of the year that is nothing more than the weakest quarter of the year for tourism.

Non-resident traveler arrivals in Greece increased by 24.5% and related receipts by 28.2% compared to the first quarter of 2023, according to data from the Bank of Greece. In particular, receipts amounted to 942 million euros compared to €746.5 million in the first quarter of 2019 and €735 million in the corresponding period of 2023.

In March alone the arrivals...