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January was strong for both accommodation and food service businesses, which is reflected in Hellenic Statistical Authority-ELSTAT’s data.
For the enterprises in Accommodation Activities (division 55 of NACE Rev.2 classification), obliged to double-entry bookkeeping, for which data are available on a monthly basis, the turnover in January 2023 amounted to 82,881,115 euro, recording an increase of 18.0% in comparison with January 2022, when the respective turnover was 70,236,576 euro.
For the enterprises in Food and Beverage Service Activities (division 56 of NACE Rev.2 classification), obliged to double-entry bookkeeping, for which data are available on a monthly basis, the turnover in January 2023 amounted to 150,035,185 euro, recording an increase of 35.7% in comparison with January 2022, when the respective turnover was 110,589,611 euro.
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In total, for the enterprises in Accommodation and Food and Beverage Service Activities (divisions 55 and 56 of NACE Rev. 2 classification), obliged to double-entry bookkeeping, for which data are available on a monthly basis, the turnover in January 2023 amounted to 232,916,299 euro, recording an increase of 28.8% in comparison with January 2022, when the respective turnover was 180,826,187 euro.
For the Regional Units with a contribution to the total turnover of the year 2022 greater than 1.0% (Table 1), the biggest increase in the turnover of January 2023 compared with January 2022 was recorded in the Region Attiki (45.5%) and the smallest increase (5.8%) was recorded in the Regional Unit Lassithi, while a decrease (23.8%) was recorded in the Regional Unit Mykonos
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