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Greece on alert for tourism, Minister leaves urgently in Berlin, Warsaw and London

Politiko 2021-05-09 14:55:51
Greece on alert for tourism, Minister leaves urgently in Berlin, Warsaw and
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Immediately after learning that Greece is not on the green list of 12 countries without quarantine that will be able to visit British and German tourists after May 17 due to the still aggravating epidemiological situation, the Greek government is put on alert to save tourism, its main sector of the economy, after the first cancellations of reservations began. The Minister of Tourism, Xaris Theoharis has left urgently in Berlin, Warsaw and then in London to talk with the authorities and the big tourist offices of these countries.

Berlin and London have stated that Greece, as well as Spain and France are still on the map in orange and not green, so all those who want to visit them when they return, should be subject to a 10-day quarantine. . It is true that the measure in question is temporary and will be reviewed again at the end of May, but Athens wants not to miss even one day.

The British market is the second most important market for Greek tourism after the German one, as in 2019 3.5 million British people visited Greece, which brought revenues of 2.56 billion euros.

While from Germany arrived in the same year 4mln tourists with a turnover of almost 3 billion euros. Even last year, truncated for tourism due to the pandemic brought 1 million British and 1.5 million Germans giving a breath of hope to the country.

Greece has only recently stabilized its rate of infections and deaths from Covid-19 after an increase that began in March and continued until recently with an average daily incidence above 2000 and deaths above 75, when the death toll has gone around 11000 .

With over 10% of the population fully vaccinated and 24% with a single dose, the authorities have announced relief measures this week starting with the opening of schools and kindergartens, or later with free movement between 54 administrative regions of the country having We believe that mass vaccination of the population will soon bring a big wave of tourists to the country./Bota.sot

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