A tour company says its premium leisure travel prices for Europe will drop an average of 6 per cent next year.
Insight Vacations says the price drop is due to the strong New Zealand dollar and sharper pricing by suppliers.
Its Channel Islands-based chief executive John Boulding said prices fortours in Switzerland would fall by 20 per cent.
"Europe is a bargain," Boulding said. "In 2013 prices will come down by about 6 per cent due to the strength of the New Zealand dollar against the euro."
In Greece prices were down between 10 per cent and 12 per cent.
Boulding said the economic slump affecting southern European countries had worked in visitors' favour.
"In a way it's part of putting some of those countries back to being competitive tourist destinations," he said. "They'd lost a bit of that with the [high] euro, they'd become so expensive."
Although the economies of Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal had been rocked by the debt crisis, tourism infrastructure was intact and visitor numbers from other parts of the continent were up.