01 — The outbound ledger
The debit side of the same BoG balance — what Greek residents spend travelling abroad:
| Measure | Value | Scope · source |
|---|---|---|
| Travel payments | €3,339.0M +19.0% | BoG, final 2025 — receipts minus surplus; provisional print was €3,370.8M (+20.2%) |
| Travel surplus | €20,287.8M +8.0% | BoG, 2025 — offsets 59.9% of the goods deficit, 89.0% of net services receipts |
02 — The inbound mirror
Two receipt perimeters exist — the balance-of-payments total and the Border Survey. Both are shown, labelled, never blended:
| Measure | Value | Scope · source |
|---|---|---|
| Travel receipts | €23,626.8M +9.4% | BoG, final 2025 (7 May 2026); Border Survey perimeter: €22,607.1M |
| Inbound travellers | 37,981.1k +6.4% | BoG Border Survey; visits (multi-region trips counted per region): 41,749.3k |
| Nights & yield | 244.67M nights +1.6% · €96.6 per night (+7.7%) | BoG; stay shortened to 5.6 nights (−4.5%); €545.5 per trip (+2.8%) |
| Leisure receipts | €20.65bn +9.8% (87.4% of total) | BoG; cruise receipts +4.9% |
| Top markets | Germany €3,784.7M (5.95M travellers) · UK €3,741.6M +18.4% (4.89M) · USA €1,736.7M (1.55M) | BoG, 2025; France €1,330.1M · Italy €1,285.7M |
| Regions | S.Aegean €6.62bn · Attica €5.84bn · Crete €4.34bn · Ionian €1.90bn | BoG regional split — five regions hold 89.9% of receipts |
03 — Gateways and ports
Athens keeps compounding as both gateway and destination.
| Measure | Value | Scope · source |
|---|---|---|
| Athens (ATH) | 33,993,746 pax +6.7% | Athens International Airport, 2025 — another record |
04 — TIO coverage of Greece
Everything the office publishes on the country, one click away:
Sources. Bank of Greece, “Developments in the balance of travel services”: 2025 final (7 May 2026) and December 2025 provisional (24 Feb 2026) · Athens International Airport annual statistics. The BoP receipts total (€23.63bn) and the Border Survey figure (€22.61bn) are different instruments — both shown, never added. Final travel payments (€3,339.0M) are the receipts-minus-surplus line of the final release.