International arrivals increased 17.1 percent or by 760,000 in the first six months of the year, boding well for the achievement of the Greek Tourism Enterprises Association (SETE) target for 19 million international arrivals in 2014.

The target includes road and sea arrivals, but not cruise arrivals, which are estimated to increase by 2.2 million.

According to data released by SETE, Athens continues its excellent performance with an increase of 32.8 percent or about 400,000 additional arrivals in the first six months.

The target of 750,000 additional arrivals in the capital is expected to be overcome. In the meantime, a large increase of over 20 percent has been recorded at the airports of Chania (24.1 percent), Santorini (26 percent), Kalamata (58.5 percent) and Samos (22.1 percent).