2024-06-16 16:30:02
His most up-to-date plan was to go to North Korea, a rustic lower off from the remainder of the world, a harsh dictatorship with strict restrictions and unusual guidelines, however which is step by step opening up its tourism. In the long run, Nikos Chalkiadakis must wait. The company canceled the journey.
Mr. Chalkiadakis is the president of the Hoteliers’ Union of Heraklion. Nonetheless, when obligations allow, he travels outdoors Greece.
Chatting with APE-MPE, he emphasizes that to this point he has visited 128 international locations and naturally he is not going to cease there. He declares his fascination with the locations of South America, explaining that the wealthy nature and the authenticity of its inhabitants are one thing distinctive.
On the similar time, he notes that the Greek vacationer workplaces are glorious, since they will fulfill any need.
Every so often the Greeks journey
The seasonality of outbound tourism will not be as centered as inbound tourism within the second and third quarters of every yr, however is unfold virtually evenly throughout the 4 quarters of the yr.
Nonetheless, in 2023 there was a notable improve in in a single day stays and funds within the third quarter, a reality which might be because of the improve within the share of journeys for holidays overseas, favored by the advance of the financial local weather in Greece, but in addition to the inflationary pressures that led the home tourism bundle to increased ranges in comparison with pre-pandemic.
Additionally noteworthy is the reversal of the pattern recorded till 2019, with a rise within the shares of the standard locations for Greeks in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, from 21% in 2019 to 27% in 2023 when it comes to departures and from 34% in 2019 to 38% in 2023 when it comes to funds and a parallel discount within the borders of our decrease vacationer spending locations reminiscent of Bulgaria and Turkey.
In these decrease vacationer spending markets, departures fell from a 36% share in 2019 to 26% in 2023 and funds from 11% in 2019 to eight% in 2023.
Decreased urge for food for overseas this yr
In 2023, Greeks made a complete of 6.2 million journeys overseas, 34.9 million in a single day stays and a couple of.4 billion euros in spending. It was a noticeable restoration in comparison with earlier years, however with out but returning to pre-pandemic ranges.
For this yr, nevertheless, and particularly after the Easter interval, the journeys of Greeks overseas have recorded a 25% drop in comparison with 2023, because the president of the Federation of Vacationer Places of work of Greece, Fedhatta, Lysandros Tsilidis, factors out to APE-MPE, on account of poor financial state of affairs of households, as he claims.
Concerning the locations chosen by the Greeks, they’re the international locations of central Europe, the southern Mediterranean, and particularly, Spain, Portugal, but in addition France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco and the Emirates. The truth is, Mr. Tsilidis emphasizes that the locations which might be costly resulting from distance, reminiscent of these in Southeast Asia, India, Cuba and Canada, have their very own viewers. “The Greek is experiencing the financial disaster and the price of residing has an influence on his travels inside and outdoors the borders,” he explains.