The focus of tourism financial exercise in a handful of areas of Greece and the robust seasonality are recorded within the statistics not too long ago printed by the Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation (INSETE).
The best shares of receipts from inbound tourism based mostly on 2023 knowledge are recorded within the areas of the South Aegean (which incorporates the Cyclades and the Dodecanese), at 27% of the overall, adopted by Crete with 26%, Attica with 19%, the Ionian Islands with 10% and Central Macedonia with 8%.
These 5 areas – of which three are purely touristic – characterize 91% of the nation’s receipts. Nevertheless, in 2024, regardless of indications of an enlargement of seasonality with elevated receipts within the months earlier than and after the summer season, in addition to the big improve in tourism in Attica, the geographical focus is anticipated to stay unchanged, if not improve. That is identified by economists who specialize within the sector, in addition to by the primary measurements for 2024.
With regard to the seasonality of receipts, 85% of them are recorded from the start to the top of the summer season season (April-September) each for 2019 and 2023. This determine isn’t anticipated to have modified in 2024. In actual fact, the focus of financial exercise within the 5 areas above not solely didn’t diminish, however really strengthened.
Out of the overall of 19.8 billion euros in 2023, a rise was recorded within the areas of the South Aegean (3%, to €5.3 billion), Crete (44%, to €5.2 billion), Attica (46%, to €3.8 billion), the Ionian Islands (7%, to €2 billion) and Epirus (26%, to €330 million).
In distinction, a lower was recorded within the areas of Central Macedonia (33%, to €1.5 billion), the Peloponnese (8%, to €383 million), East Macedonia and Thrace (26%, to €326 million), Thessaly (29%, to €253 million), Western Greece (18%, to €210 million), Central Greece (8%, to €166 million), the North Aegean (10%, to €149 million) and Western Macedonia (33%, to €51 million).
Some sources attribute this lower within the much less privileged areas to the restricted restoration of highway tourism in 2023, which was accomplished in 2024.
