Culture & Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos on Wednesday expressed his satisfaction over tourism trends so far this year.
Speaking to the ANA-MPA, the Greek minister stressed that all significant markets for Greek tourism are moving higher, such as the UK, Germany, Italy, Russia, China and Turkey.
Geroulanos said this development was welcome as tourist arrivals' figures to the country's major travel destinations led to expectations of a significant increase in tourist arrivals in 2011.
He said that a tourism campaign through the Internet was already bearing fruit, particularly in Russia, where travel agents were promoting Greece as a travel destination through the "You in Greece" website which is available in Russian.
Tourist arrivals at the Greek airports totaled 1,147,000 in the first four months of 2011, from 1,086,000 in the same period last year, for an increase of 5.6 pct, with tourism officials forecasting a record number of arrivals this year.
ANA-MPA
