Reduced up to 40% demand for holy places
More is recorded this year the northern Hellenic preparing suitcases for his holidays Easter And it is not excluded that they will finally reach 10,000, against 7,000 to 8,000 in the same period last year. This is evident from what the president of the Macedonia-Thrace Tourism Agents, Theologian Byron, said to RES-EIA.
There are excursions to all the bars, Mr Byron said, pointing out that continental Greece and the islands prevail over 60% of excursion preferences. He also stressed that road trips may “break” because they are more economical, but exhausted for a long time, the city’s direct airline connections are also exhausted, and the cruise is also very dynamic.
“The accuracy in various sectors, as well as geopolitical instability, are two factors that have led to a change in the travel behavior of the excursors, but without deteriorating to expand,” Mr Byron noted, adding that the tourist packages offered to adapt to their packets so that they have been paid to the tourist packages. Easter.
Of course, he acknowledged that new conditions also create new data, explaining characteristics: “Demand, especially towards the Holy Land, which once caught” red “, is now reduced by up to 40% and with the tendency to go down, due to the stretching situation in Gaza.”
Where did the Northern Hellenic holidaymakers go?
Tourist destinations that are high on the list of Easter excursion preferences remain Corfu and Rhodes, while increasing interest in Kefalonia, Zakynthos, Lefkada, Aegina and Syrosfor which “this year is really a mess”, as Mr Byron typically said. Regarding the destination of the island of Patmos, he noted that while the Northern Hellenic Troops want to visit it during the Easter holidays, the absence of airline connection is suspended in choosing it.
Particular mobility is recorded for excursions In Nafplio (see photo) – Tolo, in the wider area of Mani -With the relevant tourist package, it has borrowed its name from the popular “Olive Land” serial-while high on Easter excursion preferences are the destinations for Zagorohoria and the Peloponnese, “the round of which” more “.
Of course, as Mr Byron pointed out, with intense dynamic, Easter holidaymakers continue to “vote” the area of Meteors and Tinoswhere the festive climate is special and “deeply devastating”, while thousands are rushing to Mount Athos, which can be flooded throughout the year, “but especially during Easter, there is truly a pandemonium with the presence of foreign and foreign tourists and foreign tourists and foreign tourists.”
A significant diversification, this year, in the travel behavior of the excursions, is the North Hellenic preference for the Scandinavian countries, while in a strong upward orbit remains their interest in Constantinople and the tour of Pontus, where they are loaded with memories and history. With the first stop in Smyrna and an internal flight to Trabzon, the hikers will visit a series of cities and areas (Alatsata, Fountain, Argyroupoli, Panagia Sumela, Kromni, Sourmena).
With reference to organized excursions abroadhigh on the list of preferences remain Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia and Budapest. Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Barcelona and London also continue to attract a large number of travelers from Northern Greece.
Also stable in their preference for Italy remain the Northern Hellenic Foursi, mainly choosing Rome, Tuscany, Naples and Milan, and their interest in Paris may decline, but more and more points, the French Riviera is gaining.
On the entry of Thessaloniki to the foreign tourist residence map, Mr Byron stressed that the actions and actions promoted and implemented in the last year to increase visitors to the city “are really decisively to increase mobility”, while – among other things – they have already reported that they have already begun that they have already begun. Various Aegean islands to magnetize the interest of excursions.
