Provisional figures show travel receipts stood at
“The fall in travel receipts resulted from a 96.2% decline in inbound traveller flows and a 62.2% decrease in average expenditure per trip,” the
Greece’s economy depends heavily on tourism, which directly and indirectly accounts for around 20% of annual gross domestic product. After an early lockdown imposed in early March kept coronavirus deaths and serious illnesses at low levels, the country is now reopening to visitors from abroad, with the government hoping to salvage what it can from the lucrative summer tourist season.
Visitors have been able to fly into
Travel receipts in the four months from January to April dropped 51.4% from a year earlier, the
A total of 38,000 people entered the country in April, a 96.2% fall compared to the same month last year.
“Among major countries of origin, there were only some modest visitor flows from
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