According to the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises and World Travel and Tourism Council figures more than twenty-two million tourists from around the world visited Greece during 2014 and still counting. If one excludes the likes of Luxemburg, Cyprus, and Malta, each of which has a total population of less than a million citizens, Greece is the only country in the world whose tourists numbers are double its population (which stands at slightly less than eleven million). Tourism contributes about 20% to the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), the highest rate statistically for any industrialized country worldwide.
