UK nationals outnumber Germans for first time, as post-pandemic rebound helps Greek economy to grow by 5.6% in 2022
UK travellers are leading an extraordinary rebound in tourism toAlmost 4.5 million Britons were registered at Greek entry points, a record number and nearly 3 million more than in 2021.
For the first time, UK tourists edged out Germans – who have topped the visitor league tables in Greece for decades – in what some are calling a defiant display of post-pandemic “revenge” tourism. “In terms of Greece, the Brits are leading the way,” the nation’s tourism minister, Vassilis Kikilias, told the Guardian. “And they’re big spenders.”
Central bank figures released last week showed UK visitors generating over €3bn in tourism revenues in 2022, more than twice the amount they spent the previous year.with households forced to make savings,” said Kikilias. “But the data shows that Brits aren’t sacrificing their summer holidays.” Prior to the pandemic, just under 3.5 million UK citizens visited Greece in 2019, itself a record year in which a still unprecedented 33.1 million tourists visited the country – more than three times Greece’s entire population.
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