31.03.2016
Представители греческой туриндустрии не скрывают ожиданий наthe coming summer season. Their main hopes are in moving tourist flow from neighboring Turkey. Expected in this year, many travelers will opt for the Greek shores.
The Turkish Ministry of Tourism reported a decrease in tourist flow by 10% compared with March 2015. January figures stopped at a decline in interest by 6%. And tourists avoid Turkey massively: the Germans began to buy tours by 14.39% less The number of American and Japanese travelers fell by 9.53%. But most of all the Mediterranean country lost, remaining without the Russians – the flow of tourists fell by 58.96%. As for the Greeks, they they also began to visit Turkey much less often – immediately by 34%.
At the same time, the Confederation of Greek Tourism (SETE) predicts an increase in tourist traffic to Greece to a record 25 million people. Revenues will increase by 800 million euros. SETE President Andreas Andreadis told Bloomberg that in the new The season is expected to be at least 900,000 Russians. And in quality the main factors he called not only the actual closure of Turkey as a direction, but also to improve the situation in Greece itself.
