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KEPE Says Tourism Cannot Sustain Greece In the Future

2021-06-07 by Phil Butler

The windmills in Mykonos, Greece

Tourism cannot be the pillar of long-term economic growth for Greece. The sector cannot keep pace to grow the country’s GDP.

Tags: European Stability Mechanism, Greece, Greece GDP, Greece tourism, IMF, KEPE, Klaus Regling, MSC Orchestra, Sustainable Greece, sustainable tourism, sustainable travel, tourism industry, UNWTO

We’ll Soon See the Effects of Greece’s “All or Nothing” Tourism Strategy

2021-06-07 by Phil Butler

25th August Street

As Greek officials continue a blame game, hoteliers and other businesses will very soon tell the tale on the all or nothing tourism scheme.

Tags: amber list, American tourists, Do Not Travel, Greece, Greece COVID-19, Greece hotels, Marios Themistokleous, Mykonos vacations, Tourism in Greece, tourism industry, UK tourists, Vasilis Kikilias

Tour Operators Turn Trollish Over Critical COVID Conditions

2021-03-29 by Phil Butler

Tourism Trolls

The convergence of coronavirus vaccine necessity and marketing practice reveal just how desperate the tourism situation is in the EU.

Tags: Austrian tours companies, Coronavirus vaccine, COVID vaccine, Facebook groups, Greece tourism, Greece vaccine rollout, Hungary border, Open Tourism, Serbia vaccine, Tourism in Greece, tourism industry

Mitsotakis: “ Greece must not become low-cost investment destination”

2020-11-30 by Phil Butler

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Prime Minister Mitsotakis says “Greece needs to become attractive to investors in five ways, not simply over low labor cost. Now what?

Tags: brain drain, Greece brain drain, Greece sustainability, Greece tourism, Mitsotakis, Pissarides Committee, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Theoharis, tourism industry, Tourism Minister of Greece, Transforming Tourism Initiative, Travel to Greece, V.K. Premium Business Consultants, Visit Greece

Europe Travel and Tourism Bodies Demand End to COVID Quarantines

2020-09-21 by Argophilia Travel News

Mykonos

20+ travel and tourism bodies including unions across Europe demanded the European Commission leadership replace quarantine restrictions with a common EU testing protocol.

Tags: COVID quarantine, EU, EU Travel Tech, International Air Transport Association (IATA), pandemic, tourism, tourism industry, travel business, Ursula von der Leyen

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