Nearly 80,000 people visited Greece during the holiday season, according to data from three border stations provided by the East Macedonia and Thrace region police on Tuesday, ANA reports.
Of all arrivals, Turkish nationals reached 21,071 and Bulgarian nationals 9,383.
Costas Hatzimichail, president of the Trade Association of Alexandroupoli, told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) that “despite the constant increase in the number of arrivals, this does not mean a corresponding rise in spending.”
Based on the association’s data, he revealed that, “there is a drop in spending” even in traditional sectors. “It’s the first time we don’t have spending for new technology products – very popular in past years – from tourists, especially Turks. It’s obvious that the drop in consumption follows the trend of the euro-to-Turkish lira ratio, which this past year was on average 1 to 4.5.”
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