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Greece is experiencing a tourism boom after being hit hard by the coronavirus. The news is made public by the German media which emphasize that many hotels on the Greek islands which are completing their renovations, are already full of reservations.
But the influx of tourists is still registered in Athens, even more than before the pandemic, the owners of cafes, taverns or souvenir shops in the Plaka neighborhood near the Acropolis are happy to point out.
“From the previous two seasons that were close to zero, hopefully this one will be the best. This is what the first signals show, but no one can know the continuity“, Says Nikos Makropoulos, owner of a tourist shop.
Germany’s largest travel company TUI expects to bring more tourists to Greece this year than in 2019, a record year before the pandemic, when the country was visited by more than 33 million tourists. Also the low cost airline Easyjet offers half a million more seats on its flights between Britain and Greece than before the crisis.
““I also thought it might not be good to travel because of the war, but we went through so many hardships these two years and we said we have to come, we have to do something special for us.”says Sigurd Rosemeyer, tourist from Germany.
The Association of Greek Tourist Agencies is also optimistic, according to which the repetition of 2019 would be a success for the country, as no country in Europe is as dependent on tourism as Greece, where one in five euros in the country is earned from tourism and one in five jobs depend on this sector.
Therefore, the Greek government, in order to balance the great demands, decided to promote the start of the tourist season in early March, much earlier than Orthodox Easter, by raising the bar for a strong tourist season, despite the war in Ukraine, rising prices and losing its market to hundreds of thousands of Russian tourists who could not come.
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