International Tourism System

International
Tourism System
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Identify the destination for MKT01906
The selected country is Greece. When an individual or a group of individuals travel for
leisure, treking or trading, he or she needs to know about the place in detail. Here we would give
detailed information about Greece. The details include the tourist attractions destination and
accommodation facilities which are available in Greece. Moreover, the detail even includes the
positive effect of tourism on GDP of Greece. Number of international tourists visiting Greece
and their origin would also be discussed in the report in order to know who are coming to Greece
from across the world. Since last 10 years, tourism is becoming favourite vacation activity for
people across the globe and Greece, in particular Athens, has become the most popular place for
tourism by reserving its place in “top ranked countries on the World Tourism Organization” by
world health organization. More than 12 million people are visiting Greece every year. The
number is increasing year by year.
The type of accommodation options available at the destination
Overall Greece has a capacity to provide 352,000 rooms to the people who are coming
Greece for visit or travel. There are small rooms and large complex available for rent across
the country in order to welcome the guests. All complexes are recently renovated and
equipped with modern facilities. This includes 340 camping sites, more than 30000 stays and
2500 small houses which are operating under GNTO.
There are five types of accommodation across the country.
 Hotels: which has been categorized in different sections targeting different people such as
standard, traditional guest house, resorts and agro tourist stay
 Rooms are available for rent for individual or a family.
 Different types of Apartments are available for rent for visitors
 Several kinds of tourist residences and villas which has self-catering stay for an
individual, couple or a family. These holiday homes are available in various sizes and at
different location as per comfort level of tourists.
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 Camping activities are conducted throughout Greece and these camps are being operated
under the inspection of Greece government and G.N.T.O. seal. The arrangements of tents,
caravans, small and big bungalows are to be provided by GNTO. These places can be
booked by tourisms agencies also.
 Youth hostels are one of the hotels for those who are going for solo trips or trips with
friends.
Furthermore, all the accommodation facilities can be occupied by visiting official website
named as Confederation of Greek Enterprises for Rented Villas & Apartments
(visitgreece.gr, 2018).
The economic impact of GDP from tourism at the destination
A total of 33 million people visited destinations in Greece in 2018, generating more than
16 billion Euros in revenues and breaking all performance records to date (statista.com, 2019).
Tourism sector in Greece has been growing rapidly and contributing big amount to GDP
of a country with the support of Greek national tourism organization. It has given employment to
many sectors across the city of Athens. in the 2018, over 16 billion Euros are being earned due to
tourism (maniatis, 2019). Moreover it has created more than 459000 jobs in Greece in the year of
2017 and approx 600000 jobs in the year of 2018 (gtp.gr, 2018) .
Year GDP contribution in billion
Euros
2012 28
2013 30
2014 32
2015 33
2016 33
2017 35
2018 36
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