{"id":123733,"date":"2016-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/greece-over-7-increase-in-the-number-of-tourists-in-2015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:07:18","slug":"greece-over-7-increase-in-the-number-of-tourists-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/greece-over-7-increase-in-the-number-of-tourists-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece: over 7% increase in the number of tourists in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Last year, Greece recorded a 7.1% increase in the number of tourists, reaching 23.6 million people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the same time, revenues recorded by the profile sector rose by 6%, to EUR 14.2 billion.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Revenues generated by American tourists recorded an increase of 44% compared to 2014, reaching EUR 945.6 million, while receipts brought by British tourists increased by 30.5%, to over EUR 2 billion, according to data presented by the Bank of Greece.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tourists from Germany left EUR 2.26 billion in Greece in 2015, an increase of 13.6%, while the French left EUR 1.2 billion in Greece, 6.6% more compared to 2014.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Receipts from Russian tourists recorded a decrease of 63%, to EUR 425.5 million.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall-street.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Wall-Street<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How many tourists visited Greece in 2015?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greece recorded 23.6 million tourists in 2015, representing a 7.1% increase compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which nationality spent the most in Greece in 2015?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>German tourists spent the most, contributing 2.26 billion EUR, followed by British tourists with over 2 billion EUR.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the growth in revenue from American tourists?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Revenues from American tourists saw a significant increase of 44% in 2015, reaching a total of 945.6 million EUR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Greece recorded a 7.1% increase in the number of tourists, reaching 23.6 million people. At the same time, revenues recorded by the profile sector rose by 6%, to EUR 14.2 billion. Revenues generated by American tourists recorded an increase of 44% compared to 2014, reaching EUR 945.6 million, while receipts brought by British&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":65950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-123733","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\/123733","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=123733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123733"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=123733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}