Austrian tourists optimistic over Greek visit in 2011

This year’s International Travel Fair here, Ferien-Messe Wien, offered a more-or-less optimistic message for Greek tourism, with prospects of more tourist arrivals coming from Austria this year.

The four-day exhibition ended on Sunday, attracting around 120,000 visitors.

Panagiotis Skordas, head of Greek Tourism Organisation’s office in Austria, said around 450,000 Austrians visited Greece last year, with Austria ranking first among the country’s tourist origin country as a percentage of its population (8.3 million).