Athens, Greece, has moved up a spot on Allianz Companions’ High 10 Summer time European Locations record that exhibits the place People intend to journey to this yr.
For its annual evaluation, the journey safety and help firm analyzed flight itineraries for journeys of 5 to eight days in size between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
The Greek capital metropolis this yr climbed up one spot to seventh place on the record in comparison with 2022.
“The variety of People touring to Europe will improve dramatically this yr, rising by 55 % over final yr’s summer season season,” Allianz Companions mentioned in an announcement.
The corporate’s record for 2023 discovered that the reigning primary vacation spot, London, England, will welcome 25 % of this yr’s bookings, with Paris, France (2nd place) and Dublin, Eire (third place) rounding out the highest three hottest trip spots for US vacationers. Rome inched up a spot to 4th place, knocking Reykjavík in Iceland to fifth place.
One other notable transfer for 2023 included Amsterdam in The Netherlands that jumped two positions yr over yr to eighth place.
Furthermore, Milan moved into the High 10 with its first look for the reason that survey started in 2015. The resurgence of journey to Milan additionally knocked off the persistently common Barcelona, Spain, for the primary time within the survey’s historical past.
Allianz Companions’ new statistics observe final yr’s 600 % improve in American journey to Europe from 2021 to 2022, making it clear that revisiting European favorites and new bucket record locations after years of restrictions will stay a precedence when mapping out memorable summer season journey plans.
The corporate’s information additionally confirmed that 80 % of People heading to Europe this summer season will spend seven days on trip with 11 % planning for eight days away from house.
Allianz Companions gives journey insurance coverage by way of most main US airways, main journey brokers, on-line journey businesses, lodge corporations, cruise traces and on to shoppers.
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