According to a dispatch from the state news agency, arrivals at Corfu, Rhodes, Zakynthos, Chania and Herakleo totaled 800,618 in May, against 664,372 arrivals in the same month last year.
The highest annual growth was documented on the island of Zante (or Zakynthos), in the Ionian Sea, where arrivals soared by 33.5 percent, including a 20.4 percent increased in visitors from the United Kingdom.
Chania also enjoyed an increase of 28 percent, while Herakleo saw its arrivals rising by 26 percent, the island of Corfu by 19.5 percent, while the airport on Rhodes posted a more moderate 8.1 percent increase.
The common feature in all five of the above mentioned airports was the huge rise in traffic from Russia, which soared by a whopping 230 percent on an annual basis.
Provisional data from the Greek Consulate in Moscow point to a 66 percent increase in the number of visas issued for visits to Greece in the year’s first five months compared with January-May 2012. Sources say that the consulate has introduced a second shift in the evenings for visa issuing in order to respond to the huge demand this year.
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