Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2021, Greece's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes increased by 16.9% compared to 2020, reaching 945,310.

Greece accounts for 0.6% of the EU-27 total of 152,946,667.

Greece ranks 17th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 0.7% (from 951,804 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset tin00185, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.