Cheer for Greece the Austrian guy!

1 Greece, 2016 in the preferences of Austrian holiday – a Further increase of 60% of Austrian tourists in 2017…
Unprecedented apotheosis for Greece and its beauties from the whole of the austrian press in the last few days. In the newspaper Österreich published last article under the heading “Increase by 60%: Greece celebrates the great return”, which refers to the presence of Greece in the international tourism exhibition of Vienna’s Ferien-Messe Wien 2017 and the rapid increase of +60% of bookings from Austria to Greece in 2017.
Ferien-Messe Wien is a premier event for the tourist market of Central Europe and hosts more than 800 exhibitors, and guests are expected to exceed 200,000.
According to the story of the newspaper Österreich the Austrian, with regard to the reservations for their holidays in 2017, are affected primarily by global political developments. The Turkey has disappeared, and Egypt, with Tunisia recording large losses. This is the reason Greece can far exceed the success of last year. Greece as a tourist destination holds for years the first place in the preferences of Austrian tourists, with an average of about 400,000 arriving each year in our country, and therefore, Austria, in proportion to the population of the -8,6 million inhabitants – is located in the first position in terms of arrivals of foreign tourists in Greece. For the 2017 yes provided that you will not only keep the lead, but will significantly increase the difference from its competitors, since it’s already the bookings show an increase of 60%.

Similar content articles were also published in the newspapers Die Presse (title: “No cut anymore for the holidays”), Der Standard(title: “Greece is making a comeback”) and Kronen Zeitung (title: “The customers want to travel, and allow themselves more expensive holiday” and subtitle: “this summer, Greece and the US have the more preferences”).

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According to the head of the TUI Österreich, mrs Lisa Weddig, lead to the choices of the Austrian for 2017 are Crete, Corfu and Rhodes, while in the old dynamic of the returns to the Kos -for which bookings have already doubled compared with the 2016 – and for this reason the Group last week had increased by 15% the number of flights to these four Greek islands. Already in terms of TUI Österreich offer hotels in Crete, Rhodes and Kos has been expanded by 40% compared to last year, while it recorded a dynamic voltage selection of the Austrian in the smaller islands, such as Karpathos, Zakynthos, Lefkada and Kefalonia.
The Ministry of Tourism has set Austria between the target markets in the effort to attract tourism, high-income. In accordance with the TUI Österreich the Austrian people choose the basic criterion of the quality and not the price, with the average expenditure per trip varies quite up to the 900 euro.
A significant presence in terms of Greek exhibitors – other than TOURISM – in the exhibition Ferien-Messe Wien 2017 have the: Region of Crete, Region of Ionian Islands, Region of Thessaly, Municipality of Volos, hotel Association of Thessaloniki, Association, Camping in Greece, the Municipality of Paros Municipality of Antiparos, Municipality of Skiathos town, the Municipal public Benefit Enterprise of Kavala “Δημωφέλεια”, Tourist Agency Loutraki and tourism businesses, such as Helios Hotels, Louis Hotels, or the ANEK LINES and MINOAN LINES.