Tourism Facts

The Greek National Tourism Organisation is a similar organisation to VisitBritain. It has a number of tourist offices throughout Greece (don’t think there is one in Zante) and supplies information on legislation, brochures in a number of different languages, documentaries and videos on Greece and they attend a number of key tourism exhibitions throughout the world promoting Greece.

The Organisation of Tourism Education and Training provides tourism education and training in Greece and the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels is the official state consultant concerning issues of tourism. All the hotels which operate legally in Greece are Members and it forms part of the National Union of Hotels Confederation of the EU.

The tourist sector in Greece contributes annually more than 18% to the GNP and creates approximately 700,000 jobs. Tourism in the UK accounts for 3.5% of the UK economy and was worth approximately £74.2 billion in 2003 supporting 1.4 million jobs (5% of all people in employment). In Cumbria tourism is worth £1.12 billion and supports 44,563 jobs (25% of all people in employment).