12.5% rose revenue from tourism in the seven months of 2025 compared to the corresponding period of 2024 and stood at € 12,182 billion, as shown by Bank of Greece data (BCT).
This development, according to the BoG, reflects the increase in tourist traffic by 2.6% as the number of tourists who visited our country exceeded 18.4 million compared to 17.9 million last year. In particular, airport travel traffic rose by 4.7%, while this through road border stations decreased by 2.8%.
During the review, travel traffic from EU-27 countries stood at 10,648.7 travelers, down 1.6% compared to the corresponding period of 2024, while travel traffic from other countries increased by 8.9% and stood at 7,806,000 travelers.
Travel traffic from euro zone countries increased by 4%while travel traffic from EU-27 countries outside the euro area decreased by 13.1%.
In particular, travel traffic from Germany showed up 8% and stood at 2,812,000 travelers while the one from France It decreased by 8.6% and stood at 972,500 travelers. Rise by 3.1% was the travel traffic from Italywhich was formed in 1,021,000 travelers. With regard to countries outside the EU 27, travel traffic from United Kingdom increased by 1.5% and stood at 2,299,000 million travelers while the one by USA increased by 14.6% to 903,900 travelers. Finally, travel traffic from Russia increased to 15,900 travelers.
In terms of revenue, the rise is due to the receipts from EU-27 residents, which increased by 13.8%, and stood at € 6.7 billion, as well as the rise in proceeds from residents of other countries by 9.5%, which stood at € 4.8 billion.
In more detail, Revenue from residents of euro area countries stood at 5.2 billion euros, increased by 12.8%while receipts from EU-27 residents outside the euro zone increased by 17.6% and stood at € 1.45 billion.
In particular, the proceeds from the Germany They rose by 16.6% and stood at EUR 2,030.7 million, as did the receipts from France by 15.6% to 769 million euros. Enhanced by 4.9% were the receipts from the Italywhich stood at € 632.8 million. Of the other countries, dropped by 2.9% the receipts from the United Kingdomwhich was set at 1,631.7 million, while receipts from USA They increased by 25.3% and stood at € 954.0 million. Finally, the receipts from the Russia increased to € 17.4 million.