{"id":120218,"date":"2019-03-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/tourism-contributed-20-6-to-greeces-gdp-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:11:21","slug":"tourism-contributed-20-6-to-greeces-gdp-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/tourism-contributed-20-6-to-greeces-gdp-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism contributed 20.6% to Greece&#8217;s GDP in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Greece&#8217;s travel and tourism industry recorded a 6.9% growth in 2018, according to the results of a study by the World Travel and Tourism Council, WTTC.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tourism had a 20.6% contribution to Greece&#8217;s GDP last year, compared to a level of only 10.4% globally, according to WTTC data. This means that one in every 5 EUR spent last year in Greece came from the travel and tourism industry, whose turnover amounted to 37.5 billion EUR.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to data recently published by the Central Bank of Greece, the number of visitors increased by 10.8%, reaching 30.1 million.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profit.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Profit<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>What was tourism&#8217;s contribution to Greece&#8217;s GDP in 2018?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tourism accounted for 20.6% of Greece&#8217;s GDP in 2018, significantly higher than the global average of 10.4%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much did the Greek tourism industry grow in 2018?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The industry saw a growth of 6.9% in 2018, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many visitors did Greece receive in 2018?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greece welcomed 30.1 million visitors in 2018, representing a 10.8% increase compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece&#8217;s travel and tourism industry recorded a 6.9% growth in 2018, according to the results of a study by the World Travel and Tourism Council, WTTC. Tourism had a 20.6% contribution to Greece&#8217;s GDP last year, compared to a level of only 10.4% globally, according to WTTC data. This means that one in every 5&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-120218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120218"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=120218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}