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Tourist Arrivals in Greece Posted Impressive Increase

Santorini_windmillsJune posted an impressive increase in air arrivals from abroad at the country’s popular holiday destinations, confirming that 2013 will indeed be a record year as far as arrivals are concerned.
Preliminary data for Iraklio, Rhodes, Corfu and Zakynthos, four of the country’s most popular airports for tourists, showed that arrivals from abroad exceeded 1 million in June, posting a 14.7 percent rise from the same month in 2012, Beta Securities noted in a morning report.
Arrivals at Iraklio airport rose 19.8 percent, at Rhodes 18.4 percent, at Zakynthos 12.5 percent and at Corfu 8.2 percent. Early signs point to a significant increase of 16 percent on average at the airports of Kos, Myconos and Cephalonia, too.
Forecasts for arrivals from Russia have already been revised upward as tourism bodies have raised their expectations from 1 million to 1.2 million tourists from Russia this year. In fact the Russians were the biggest group to visit Rhodes in June, posting a 67.4 percent annual rise, against a 20.2 percent increase for the French. On Zakynthos the annual growth rate of visitors from Russia reached 156.3 percent, while there was also a notable rise of visitors from Belgium, by 85.3 percent.
(source: capital)

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