Hotel owners, mostly on Greek islands, said Monday that the seamen’s strike on Holy Tuesday and Wednesday has given the final blow to Greek tourism, underlining that the repercussions do not stop inside the Greek borders but also affect the foreign tourist markets, especially the all important German and British markets.
The situation is anything but optimistic, says the president of Zakynthos island Hoteliers Union, Christina Tetradi to AMNA, noting that the decline in reservations on Zakynthos exceeds 50 percent. The same issue prevails also on Corfu, the most popular tourist destination for the Easter holiday, where reservations have posted a 30 percent decline in occupancy.
According to Cephalonia Hoteliers Union President Spyros Galiatsatios, the damage has already been done, and he expressed the fear that the seamen’s strike will once again have severe repercussion on reservations from Germany, saying that the burning request of Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos during his visit to the international tourist exhibition in Berlin was in regards to the strikes in Greece.
(Source: AMNA)
According to Cephalonia Hoteliers Union President Spyros Galiatsatios, the damage has already been done, and he expressed the fear that the seamen’s strike will once again have severe repercussion on reservations from Germany, saying that the burning request of Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos during his visit to the international tourist exhibition in Berlin was in regards to the strikes in Greece.
(Source: AMNA)
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