The number of tourists who visited Greece in 2024 approached 40.7 million and tourism revenues reached 21.6 billion euros, the Bank of Greece said in its final report for the said year released on Thursday.
The number of tourists in 2024 approached 40.7 million and was up 12.8% compared to 2023.
Tourism revenues reached 21.6 billion euros in 2024 and this amount is an increase of 4.8% compared to 2023.
The region of Attica attracted the largest volume of visits, while the region of South Aegean recorded the largest share of total receipts and overnight stays in 2024.
Non-resident overnight stays in Greece reached 240.8 million in 2024, compared to 236.2 million in 2023, an increase of 1.9%. This is due to a 4.9% increase in the number of nights spent by residents of EU27 countries, as the number of nights spent by residents of other countries decreased by 3.9%.
More specifically, the increase in receipts is due to the 7.1% rise in receipts from residents of the EU27 countries, which amounted to 11.97 billion euros, representing 55.4% of total receipts, and the 0.6% increase in receipts from residents of other countries, which amounted to 8.7 billion euros. In 2024, total receipts from cruise passengers increased by 22.4% compared to 2023 and amounted to 1.11 billion euros.
Receipts from euro area residents amounted to 9.5 billion euros in 2024, an increase of 4.5% compared to the previous year, while receipts from residents of EU countries outside the euro area amounted to 2.5 billion euros, up 18.4%.
As regards the main countries of origin of travellers, receipts from Germany increased by 3.7% to 3.7 billion euros, while receipts from France decreased by 11.6% to 1.25 billion euros. Receipts from Italy rose by 13.6% to 1.25 billion euros. Among the other countries, receipts from the USA were up by 15.3% to 1.6 billion euros, while receipts from the United Kingdom fell by 4.1% to 3.15 billion euros. Finally, receipts from Russia fell by 51.5% to 15.7 million euros.
PS I’m not sure this isn’t much too much for a country with just 10 million people.
Approximately 40 million too many. Everywhere in the world, but especially within the EU, the people are sick to the back teeth of two major economic phenomena that their governments have quietly dumped on them — mass tourism and selling off multiple homes to non-resident foreigners and companies. Both things are directly in conflict with the interests of the majority of people, causing chaos, altering traditional places to reflect the poor tastes of foreigners with spare cash, depriving the native populations of affordable homes, and generally inflating the prices of everything.
The cause of all this? Corrupt politicians, who personally benefit to the tune of billions of euros. And the outcome? Will be the unstoppable rise of the Extreme Right in every country’s democratic elections. It is already happening, yet the jerks in political power carry on regardless.