Greece opens to tourists, anxious to move on from crisis season

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Greece began opening to tourists on Monday with few bookings but hopes for a better season to help make up for a 2020 that was devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. | Reuters

Tourism, which generates a fifth of Greece’s GDP and one in five jobs, is vital for an economy that had climbed out of a decade-long slump only to slip back into recession last year as COVID-19 struck.

Many have been closed since 2020 when just 7.4 million people visited Greece, fewer than any year in its decade-long economic crisis and down from a record 31.3 million in 2019. A worker wearing a protective face mask cleans the counter along the buffet line at the Sun Beach Resort, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, on the island of Rhodes, Greece, April 14, 2021. REUTERS/Louiza Vradi

“We can understand it because guests really want to be sure that they will fly,” he said. “But that does not mean that we will not get bookings later.”

 

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