{"id":58432,"date":"2019-02-10T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/konsylstvo-grecii-vydalo-600-tysiach-viz-rossiiskim-tyristam-v-2018-gody.html"},"modified":"2019-02-10T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:01:07","slug":"konsylstvo-grecii-vydalo-600-tysiach-viz-rossiiskim-tyristam-v-2018-gody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/konsylstvo-grecii-vydalo-600-tysiach-viz-rossiiskim-tyristam-v-2018-gody","title":{"rendered":"Greek Consulate Issued 600,000 Visas to Russian Tourists in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Last year, Russian tourists obtained 600,000 visas to Greece. This figure decreased by almost 11,000 compared to 2017, according to Consul General of Greece Eleni Vakali.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/08839d07a51eca8c39803d0ec2aea1d2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe explain this by the fact that the consulate is trying to issue <!--more-->&quot;Multiple-entry long-term visas. This is how we ensure the stability of the Russian client market for Greece,&quot; she noted, adding that, at the end of 2018, the number of Greek visa refusals was 0.7%.<\/p>\n<p>\nAs a reminder, tour operators previously told TRN that sales of early booking packages to Greece, which began last year, have grown by up to 25%.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trn-news.ru\/news\/87099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Russian tourists obtained 600,000 visas to Greece. This figure decreased by almost 11,000 compared to 2017, the General Directorate reported.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}