Passenger site visitors within the 14 regional airports of Greece has risen throughout August, thus marking a rise of 9.4 per cent in comparison with the identical month of 2019 in home and worldwide flights.
“Indicatively, solely in Santorini, we had the report efficiency with a rise of +39.8 per cent this 12 months in August in comparison with August 2019, in Aktion +22.9 per cent, in Corfu airport +20.2 per cent and in Skiathos +18.4 per cent,” the Minister of Tourism Vassilis Kikilias additionally revealed, SchengenVisaInfo.com studies.
In keeping with a press release issued by the Ministry of Tourism, Minister Kikilias referred to the most recent Eurostat information for Greek airports in August, including {that a} 5 per cent enhance was seen in industrial flights in comparison with August 2019.
“Greece follows with a optimistic signal (+ two per cent) solely in Luxembourg, whereas all different European nations present a damaging signal,” he identified on this regard.
In keeping with Kikilias, based mostly on the information supplied by Eurostat, it may be seen that from the reservations and ticket purchases for the months of September and October, the vacationer circulation not solely continues but additionally strengthens.
He additionally added that the vacationer circulation can be strengthened rather more after the final bulletins that got here final Sunday from the Prime Minister, who spoke in regards to the additional assist of the vacationer product via the brand new co-advertising program of the EOT in cooperation with the tour operators and airways.
As well as, Minister Kikilias emphasised that the vacationer circulation is predicted to extend as a result of formidable challenge that Greece has set in movement to draw Northern Europeans, primarily retirees in the course of the months of November, December, February and March.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Tourism additionally talked about the added worth of the vacationer product, reiterating that the figures so removed from the Financial institution of Greece assist the truth that this 12 months’s revenue is predicted to exceed the revenues of 2019.
On this regard, he stated that this consists of revenue that finally ends up straight within the funds of the common Greek household, in small and medium-sized Greek companies, Greek hoteliers, employees in professions straight or not directly associated to the tourism business, main manufacturing, and the Greek farmers.
On the similar time, he emphasised that this revenue brings investments, opens new jobs, strengthens the Greek financial system, and permits the nation to assist Greek women and men.
