Greece expects foreign tourist arrival to surpass 32 million this year

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

This year, tourist arrivals in Greece are anticipated to grow by 2 mln in comparison to the last year and to surpass 32 million tourists, explained Giorgios Tziallas, the general secretary of Tourism Ministry in an event on health tourism in Greece arranged by the International Health Tourism Centre along with the World Institute of Greek Doctors at the Huffington Centre in Los Angeles, USA.

 
Also, Tziallas targeted on another positive development in the tourism and the job market in Greece “for the first time since 2001, there were 100,000 job positions in April 2018, 80 percent of them were in the tourism sector, and half of them referred to permanent and not season.”

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