The Greek economy benefited from Airbnb, the online rental platform, by 1.4 billion US dollars in 2018, it said in statistics released for over 30 countries.

More than 340,000 tourists visited Athens in 2018, through Airbnb’s accommodation, leaving 89.5m euros in the city, according to data presented by the President of Pan-Hellenic Association of Real Estate Managers (PASIDA) Andreas Chios at a joint event of the Commercial Association Athens and POMIDA for the present and the future of short-term leases in Athens, which took place on May 9th.

Sunday edition of the British Telegraph speaks in an extensive publication of "mass evictions" led by the "government plan to grant visas to non-EU citizens against investments of EUR 250,000 in real estate" and because of AirBnB rentals.