The country saw a freefall in receipts from travel services, according to data from the BoG for the nine-month period of 2020.

A full recovery of tourism is not expected before 2025 according to the provisional data of the annual survey of Phocuswright, presented in the context of the 4th International Hospitality Forum, which was conducted digitally under the auspices of the Hotel Chamber of Greece.

Australian airline Qantas will make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for all passengers on its international flights, its director said, noting that the requirement would become "a common thing" in the industry.

Two new studies, published by the Institute of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (INSETE) in the context of its periodicals, are enriching the databases of Greek tourism, which will be the basis for comparison during the planning of the next period.

The first goal of the GNTO during that crisis was to Promote Tourism, starting with Domestic & Regional Domestic, as the first segment to recover, then the international.

The entire hospitality industry would agree that short-term rentals led the tentative recovery in the spring and into the summer in many parts of the world. The key question is how will they respond when hotels and cities come back to normal, with the help of a vaccine.

Three new distinctions in the USA, bring once again Greece and Santorini to the forefront of the global tourism market, despite the international tourism recession caused by the pandemic.

Decline in passenger traffic at Athens International Airport continued in December, following the trends of the previous months, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on air travel, with restrictive traffic and transportation conditions still in force.

The Minister of Development Ad. Georgiadis. announced that, the issue of the operation of the ski resorts will be raised at the meeting of the committee next Friday.

The picture of the year that has just left is gloomy for Greek tourism, while the forecasts for the new year are modest.