Booking: Which region in Greece was named the 2nd most hospitable in the world (list) | News about the Economy
THE Continent was named for 2023 among the most hospitable regions in the world by the platform Booking.comeven climbing to the 2nd place of the relevant list, according to the awards Traveler Review Awards 2023.
The first place in the same list is occupied by the region of La Rioja in Spain, while they follow in the remaining places: Upper Austria, County Down in Northern Ireland, Mures in Romania, Marlborough in New Zealand, Ninh Binh in Vietnam, Limón in Costa Rica, Nueva Labrador in Canada and North Dakota in the US.
Booking also had them in a separate category 10 most welcoming cities for this year.
These are:
- Polignano a Mare, Italy
- Hualien, Taiwan
- San Sebastian, Spain
- Dresden, Germany
- Klaipeda, Lithuania
- York, UK
- Ushuaia, Argentina
- Porto De Galinhas, Brazil
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Gold Coast, Australia
Greece ranks eighth in the number of accommodation awards
At the same time, among the leading countries is Greece, in terms of accommodation and other travel service providers, receiving distinction from the Traveler Review Awards 2023, which are given based on the best reviews from travelers.
The awards were based on 240 million verified reviews on the Booking.com platform, 1.36 million accommodation partners, 230 car rental providers and 58 airport taxi providers.
In total, 1.36 million travel service providers received an award for their services, and for the second year in a row, apartments (629,421) are the most awarded type of accommodation worldwide, winning three times more than holiday homes (177,795) and hotels (172,036). It is the first time that the hotels are in the third place of the awards.
Almost one in 10 awardees worldwide received the badge “Sustainable Travel” for their efforts to operate in a more sustainable manner. Among all types of accommodation, hotels gathered the largest share of accommodation with the sustainability badge (15%).
In particular, Italy ranked first among countries with the most accommodation awards (170,638), followed by Spain (108,217), France (103,365), Germany (76,479), Croatia (64,206), Poland (60,721), United Kingdom (60,697), eighth Greece (54,473), Brazil (53,658) and USA (46,839).
In terms of the countries with the most awards for apartments, houses and other unique accommodation, Italy was again first, followed by Spain, France, Germany and Croatia.
At the level of transport service providers, Spain collected the most awards (23), followed by Greece (21), France, Italy and Portugal. But also in taxi transfers to and from airports in first place, Spain received the most awards (11 providers with 442 drivers), the second was Greece (7 providers with 1,196 drivers), followed by Italy, Poland and Portugal.
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