Two hundred and fifty thousand tourists used red buses to tour Thessaloniki

More than 250,000 Greek and foreign visitors, from 2012 until today, have chosen the open-type red buses of Thessaloniki Sightseeing to get to know the city and its numerous monuments, museums and churches, in just… 80 minutes. This is what one of the two owners of the company, Ioanna Toulkeridou, points out while speaking to state news agency APE-MPE, underlining that in 2019 a traffic record was recorded, which may be repeated or even surpassed this year, "although what will happen in the future can only be announced safely at the end of the season, i.e. in December."

What is clearly visible, according to Ms. Toulkeridou, is that on the days of cruise ship arrivals in Thessaloniki, "there is increased traffic on the open-type red buses of Thessaloniki Sightseeing, as well as in the whole market", she emphasizes.

Number one among the users of the red open-top buses of Thessaloniki Sightseeing are, according to Ms. Toulkeridou, tourists from the Balkans, followed by Israelis and Central Northern Europeans, while the months with the highest traffic are from July to September.

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Reading the user comments on the company's website, it was found that even residents of Thessaloniki, who have lived and worked in the city all their lives, finally managed to get to know the history of the "Nymph of the North" and visit its numerous monuments, while on board the open-type red buses of Thessaloniki Sightseeing.

"I live and work in Thessaloniki, but I have never had the opportunity to visit the most important monuments of our city in such a short period of time. Truly an unforgettable...