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Greece tourism statistics 2012

Submitted by Visit Plus on Fri, 08/09/2013 - 16:58

Tourism in Greece statistical information 2012.
Greek population is 10.8 million people (2011).

The total number of foreign tourists visiting Greece is 15.5 million people.
Number of hotels (places in hotels) - 9670 (771271).

Tourists from countries:
(Tourists from what countries usually come to Greece.)

  • Germany - 2.1 million people (13.6%).
  • UK - 1.92 million. (12.4%).
  • FYROM - 1,3 million. (8.4%).
  • France - 0.98 million. (6.3%).
  • Russia - 0.87 million. (5.6%).
  • Italy - 0.848 million. (5.5%).

The largest number of tourists organize their trip (buy airline tickets, book hotels, rent apartments) themselves. 11396 people - independent travelers, 4121 million people used services of travel agencies.

Total income of the tourism industry was more than 10 billion euros.
Average consumption in the tourist trip to Greece was 646 euros.

  • 16.5% percent of revenue brought tourists from Germany.
  • 14.16% tourists from the UK.
  • 9.42% of Russian tourists.
  • 7.62% tourists from France.
  • 5.42% tourists from Italy.
  • 4.25% tourists from the United States.

6,597 million (65.81%) of income brought independent travelers, 3,427 million euros (34.19%) - tourists who come by tour companies.

In what countries are most often travel from Greece?

  • Turkey - 533,000 people.
  • Bulgaria - 509 thousand people.
  • Germany - 416,800 people.
  • Italy - 286 thousand people.
  • United Kingdom - 286,000 chelovek4.
  • Cyprus - 205,000 people.
  • France - 160 thousand people.

With travel people of Greece to the United States, Britain, Cyprus, Russia, Spain and Germany last an average of more than 10 days. Trips to Turkey over short-term.

The number of tourists coming to Greece as a percentage of the total by month.
The number of tourists coming to Greece is heavily dependent on the season. The most popular among tourists months are June, July, August and September.

2.3% in January.
February 1.7%.
2.3% in March.
April 4.0%.
7.6% in May.
June 13.2%.
July 18.55.
21.1% in August.
September 16.3%.
8.4% in October.
2.5% in November.
2.1% in December.

Most popular airports in Greece.
The number of foreign tourists in Greece for the airport of arrival.

  1. Athens - 2.56 million
  2. Heraklion - 2.11 million
  3. Rhodes - 1.606 million
  4. Thessaloniki - 1.31 million
  5. Corfu - 0.84 million
  6. Kos - 0.80 million
  7. Charia - 0.72 million
  8. Zakinzas - 0.43 million
  9. Santarini - 0.2 million
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