Greece has become the most popular European country for beach lovers this year.
Holiday rental search engine Holidu compiled a list of the most popular countries in Europe for beach lovers based on Google searches over the past 12 months for each country name combined with the keyword “beaches”, and Instagram hashtags for that keyword. words and their variations.
As a result, Greece took the lead with 5,400 Google searches every month and more than 142,000 hashtags on Instagram.
At the same time, the beaches of Crete, Naxos, and Mykonos turned out to be the best in Greece.
In second place is Italy with 5.4k monthly Google searches and over 71k Instagram hashtags, followed by Portugal with 3.6k monthly Google searches and over 61k Instagram hashtags.
Rounding out the top five are France, with 3,600 Google searches per month and over 42,000 Instagram hashtags, and Ireland, with 880 Google searches per month and over 42,000 Instagram hashtags.