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• And Olympia Anastasopoulou, General
Secretary of Tourism Policy and Develop-
ment, Ministry of Tourism, Hellenic Republic
As an industry, we weathered the storm
together.
Now, we are making waves again.
After three years of reduced operations,
Mr Pierfrancesco Vago 2023 is when we return to our pre pan-
keynote speech: demic growth trajectory.
We expect up to 33 million cruise passen-
Dear all, gers worldwide, exceeding 2019 volumes
Good morning.
by over 11%.
I’m delighted to be here with you today in And when it comes to the East Med, cruise
Thessaloniki, for the first in-person Posido- ships from all brands are coming back ahead
nia Sea Tourism Forum since 2019.
of the summer season.
And thank you to those members of the Greece now has an extraordinary oppor-
Government who could be here today even tunity to strengthen its position as a cruise
in a pre-election period including:
hub in the region and today I will outline
the key actions to achieve this.
• Apostolos Tzitzikostas, Governor, Re-
gion of central Macedonia
Europe is one of the top cruise regions in
the world.
• Konstantinos Zervas, Mayor of Thessa-
loniki
It is the second largest market globally, at-
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