Travel weekly published a story, which
claims that Greece expects to attract 17 million tourists this year. They will
spend £9.3 billion and this gain of 9% has already positively contributed to
the country’s still fragile economy.
The decline in GDP will be lower than anticipated. Tourism already accounts for one in five jobs and employment
in this sector is growing.
The troubles in Egypt must have helped Greece. However their
reduction of Vat from 23% TO 13% has made a difference to what is already an
inexpensive destination.
All this has attracted the likes of
opportunistic operators like Ryanair who have opened their first base in
Crete. UK visitors in 2012 amounted to 1.8 million and this is
expected to increase to over 2 million in 2013.
Soon the EU will approve another tranche of
bail out money for Greece. They should make it conditional that part of it
should be invested in tourism advertising.
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