Greece was found to be one of the world’s 20 safest countries to travel to this year, according to a study by the World Travel Monitor presented on Wednesday at the ITB Convention. Scandinavia, Switzerland and Australia topped the list.
Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan were considered among the least safe.
The report found that international tourism will perform marginally worse in 2019 due to the slowdown in global economic growth. Nonetheless, global outbound travel will record a 4 per cent increase, with Asia-Pacific remaining the world leader in growth trends.
Holidays in the sun and the sea, as well as city breaks, were the dominant trends in 2018.
City tourism in the period 2017-2018 recorded a rise of 222 per cent, followed by cruises with a 78 per cent.
Holiday trips overshadowed business trips for yet another year. Traditional business travel showed signs of weakness contrary to congress tourism which continued to grow.