TUI forecasts record tourist demand for Greece this year
ATHENS (Reuters) – Vacation group TUI expects the very best degree of demand for Greece on file this 12 months, its director of Communications Aage Duenhaupt advised Athens information company on Sunday.
Tourism accounts for about 20% of Greece’s gross home product and has a vital position in serving to the financial system to emerge from a decade-long debt disaster adopted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Greece is once more this summer season one of the standard vacation locations. We count on the very best degree of demand ever,” Duenhaupt mentioned.
“In whole the group is predicted to deliver round 3 million holidaymakers to Greece. A better variety of guests than earlier than the pandemic, when it was 2.8 million,” he added.
TUI has mentioned it expects to turn out to be worthwhile once more in 2022 as international locations have lifted restrictions on motion.
Greek officers have mentioned they count on the sector to usher in 80% of the file 18 billion euros ($18.33 billion) of revenues generated in 2019, earlier than the pandemic, on the idea of 33 million arrivals, in contrast with the 14 million guests from overseas final 12 months.
They might face disruption, nonetheless, as strikes and workers shortages have compelled 1000’s of flight cancellations throughout Europe.
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(Reporting Lefteris Papadimas; enhancing by Barbara Lewis)
