The number of foreign visitors in Greece was up 17 percent in the period January-May this year, exceeding 3.5 million, while tourism revenues jumped 10.6 percent compared to the same period in 2013, the Bank of Greece (BoG) said on Tuesday.
Tourist arrivals from the EU 28 reached 2.069 million, up 18.7 percent compared to the same period last year.
Arrivals from third countries increased 14.7 percent to 1.497 million visitors, while arrivals from eurozone countries increased 12.6 percent and arrivals from other EU countries increased 28.2 percent.
Tourist arrivals from Germany dropped 5.8 percent, while arrivals from France and the UK increased 13.9 and 25.5 percent respectively.
Arrivals from Russia increased 39 percent at 146,000 visitors and arrivals from the United States rose 33.4 percent at 124,000.
Tourism revenues from EU member-states increased 14.5 percent at 1.1 billion euros, while revenues from countries other than the EU28 rose to 738 million euros, recording an increase of 5.1 percent compared to the same period in 2013.
The Greek travel balance recorded a surplus of 1.13 billion euros increased by 6.7 percent compared to the same period last year.
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