Tourists arriving by car or coach in Greece in 2017 significantly grew in 2017, a SETE Intelligence study noted this week.
More specifically, the number of travelers that arrived by vehicle to the country last year reached 8.3 million, just more than 30 percent of the total tourism arrivals – excluding cruise ships.
Tourist arrivals by car or coach were chiefly from Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (fYRoM) and Poland.
Given that travel receipts last year amounted to 14.63 billion euros, some 2 billion euros of that came to Greece by car. The advantage those tourists enjoy is that they can select or change their destination at the very last minute without having to pay a penalty as in the case of air tickets. Therefore, the economic climate in the countries of origin is the most important factor for their citizens when it comes to choosing where to go holidays.
Nevertheless, economic developments in those same states are presenting a mixed picture, with a positive situation in Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, Poland and FYROM and a negative one in Romania and Turkey, which may well affect Greece’s road tourism this year.
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