Tourist play of 2025 In Greece it turned retired to beryllium paradoxical: grounds 40 cardinal visitorsincome astatine the level 22 cardinal eurosBut dissatisfaction reigns successful the industry. “A batch of customers – small money” – So representatives of the tourist concern summarize the situation.
The main occupation is 80,000 bare jobsthat cannot beryllium closed. Due to the deficiency of staff The level of work has fallenand this straight deed the income. The representation was aggravated High prices And Airbnb boomtanking customers from restaurants and hotels to supermarkets.
Chairman of the Trade Union of Tourism and Catering Workers Georgios Hotzoglu listed Three cardinal causes of failure:
- low prime of services owed to deficiency of personnel;
- high outgo of the country, particularly successful the tract of nutrition;
- Mass transition of tourists to AirbnbWhere they navigator astatine home, and not visit restaurants.
Hotzoglu emphasized: “Restaurants survived a decline, and fractional of the Greeks did not spell to remainder astatine all”. According to him, adjacent for foreigners Greece has go too expensive: The prices are not the aforesaid arsenic earlier Covid.
As a result, those areas where you tin unbend cheaper: Peloponnese, Chalkidics, Crete and Rhodes. But the elite Kiklady – Santotini, Mikonos, Paros – We failed the season. The objection was lone AthensWhere the travel of tourists remains precocious adjacent successful the fall.
Bottom line: Tourists travel to the country, but Tourism arsenic a “heavy industry” of Greece Disabulating billions. Without reforms, power implicit Airbnb and terms stabilization, the situation risks repeating successful 2026.
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