Greece ranks fourth among the countries that have seen the greatest growth in flight bookings from travelers in France, according to an analysis by Travelport.
The website of the Thessaloniki Tourism Organization will be translated in Chinese, in order to facilitate visitors traveling from China to the northern Greek city.
International tourism receipts increased by US$ 48 billion in 2014 to reach a record US$ 1,245 billion. An additional US$ 221 billion was generated from international passenger transport, bringing total exports from international tourism up to US$ 1.5 trillion.
China sits at the top of the list of the world's top international tourism spenders with a 28 percent increase in expenditure in 2014, reaching a total of US$ 165 billion.
Statistics on international tourism recently released by the UN World Tourism Organization showed that Greece with 15.5 million visitors in 2012 ranked 17th among the most popular tourism destination in the world.
International arrivals and nights to Europe for the first months of 2013 point to a slower, but continued growth for most of the destinations referred to in the European Travel Commission's first quarterly report "European Tourism in 2013 – Trends & Prospects" that was recently...
