A new survey undertaken by Webjet Australia has found that Greece is top placed as the destination frequented by Australian tourists between the months January-August in 2014 and 2015.
Other countries to feature prominently were fellow Mediterranean destinations Spain and Italy.
The results coincide with those found by a similar survey which was conducted by the Bank of Greece on the country’s tourism numbers, which found arrivals by non-Greeks rose 20.8 per cent between January and June this year.
Of those arrivals, 49,000 were Australians, comprising 0.7 per cent of the total number.
A vast majority of arrivals in Greece are from other European countries, which accounted for 6.5 out of the 7.5 million visitors during that period.