Let The Count-down Begin-Here Comes Summer
23/04/09 03:02 Filed in:
Northcorfutaxi.comSeven is the lucky number!! One full week left until the summer tourist season begins here in Greece and we can't wait. Already we have seen the few brave souls that leave home a little early for holiday-trying to beat the crowds. Yet, we are all holding our breaths and saying, "What will the season be like?" The economic crisis is hitting everyone, regardless of geography, so what will that mean for Greece?
Here is an article from the Global Travel Industry News about the 2009 Summer and Greece:
ATHENS - Below Athens' lofty Acropolis, taverna-owners chase after potential customers strolling along the stone-paved alleys of Plaka past empty handicraft shops. The season hasn't started, but the tourist industry is worried. Holiday bookings -- mainly from Britain, Germany and, lately, also eastern Europe -- are already down about 15 to 20 percent from 2008, according to the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Tourism Enterprises (POET). If recession-hit Europeans continue to stay away from Greece's sun-bleached islands, it would threaten a vital source of income in a country where unemployment, anger at political scandals and the government's weakness in the face of the global crisis already fuel almost daily street demonstrations. Greece relies on tourism for about one in five jobs. Its conservative government is clinging to a one-seat majority and under pressure to do more to help even though its credit rating, recently cut by Standard and Poor's, put Greece one notch below Estonia.
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