Greek Winter Tourism Climbs Higher After Festive Boost

With the festive play approaching, Greece’s upland and semi-mountain hoteliers are taking stock aft a highly successful ‘Ohi Day’ October 28 agelong weekend. The vacation provided a much-needed boost for winter accommodations, with occupancy rates soaring supra 90% successful galore destinations — 100% successful mountainous Nafpaktia, 92% successful Karpenisi, 90% successful Dimitsana, 86% successful Kalavryta, and 71% successful Nafplio. As successful erstwhile years, destinations adjacent large cities saw the strongest demand.

Eyes connected the Holiday Season

Attention present turns to the Christmas and New Year play — from December 25–28 and January 1–6 (Epiphany) — when hoteliers anticipate different surge successful bookings. Clean Monday (February 23) and Easter 2026, which falls aboriginal connected April 12, are besides expected to sustain winter tourism momentum.

Greece’s upland regions big astir 1,500 hotels, mostly small, family-run units of up to 20 rooms, rated three stars oregon higher. Roughly 30% are located successful bluish Greece and run chiefly from precocious October to April. “A edifice cannot survive if it performs well for lone 30 oregon 40 days a year,” hoteliers stress, noting that mid-season occupancy often drops beneath 30%.

Rethinking the Winter Tourism Model

A “White Week” connected the Horizon

Reviving the thought of a ‘White Week’ — a schoolhouse vacation astir Clean Monday dedicated to winter excursions — is besides gaining traction. Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni precocious reaffirmed the government’s committedness to strengthening upland tourism done legislation, Recovery Fund projects, and promotional campaigns, noting that revenues successful winter months person already risen markedly successful 2024 and 2025.