Greece Tourism Forecast - Important Growth by 2016

A spectacular growth of tourism in Greece is expected and same stands for  International arrivals that  will increase up to 32% by 2016, meaning that foreign tourists will exceed 21.7 million. This is according to the CEO of the hotel chain Best Western Great Britain, Mr. Richard Lewis and the Director of Marketing of Expedia UK hotels.com Ms. Christelle Chan.

Both of them were the keynote speakers at the second Travel Forum hosted by Google Greece on 6 February 2013 focusing on exponential changes in the travel industry brought by the Internet and mobile devices.

In addition 500 representatives were involved from small, medium and large enterprises of domestic tourism industry (airlines, accommodation, car rental and cruise).

According to estimates, the total turnover of tourism online and offline is 1.2 trillion. dollars worldwide including airfare, hotels, and other activities such as car rentals, etc.