Experts have named the most popular cities for sea recreation among Europeans, Turizm Aktuel reports.
The rating of the most popular cities chosen by tourists from the EU for a beach holiday in summer was compiled by World Travel Market (WTM) and Forward Keys. Antalya became the leader, interest in which increased by 81 percent compared to the pre-pandemic 2019.
In second place is the Albanian Tirana, in which the number of tourists has increased by a third (36 percent) in three years.
Six places in the top ten leading beach destinations were occupied by Greek resorts. So, Mykonos was in third place, Rhodes - in fourth, followed by Chania, Heraklion, Santorini, and Thessaloniki. The number of tourists there compared to 2019 increased by about a quarter (an increase of 17 to 29 percent).
The Spanish city of Alicante (+16 percent compared to 2019) and the Portuguese resort of Funchal (+11 percent) are close to the top ten.