Greece to cover costs of tourists stranded due to strikes and natural disasters
Greece on Monday promised additional costs for visitors in the indebted country part of offer to vital tourism boost stranded.
The promise would extended for tourists, Besuche are strikes or even natural disasters, said culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos, apply.
"We ensure extra room and to pay, every visitor in Greece, pays meals also if here because of the volcano in Iceland to put,", he said at a press conference to promote the announcement of a new Internet drive Greece as a tourist destination.
Greece last month with the first edition of one is caught in a large budget and debt crisis and bankruptcy (EURO) 110 billion (136,3 billion dollars) EU and International Monetary Fund to secure the rescue loan bailout vermeiden.Um slashed the centre left government pensions and civilian pay while increasing excise duties.
Which flights canceled responded with a string of strikes, trade unions, stopped ferry and rail services and public transport.
Tourism is an important source of income, more than 15 percent of gross domestic product and entfallen.Branchenkenner you tell one of five jobs a decrease of approximately 10 to 12 percent in bookings in deadly riots following this year see the links three dead last month in Athens ausgeschalteten protest against painful cuts violent.
Tourist arrivals had previously suffered from chaos air routes caused by the explosion of a volcano in Iceland that block tons of ashes in the sky spat for days.
Geroulanos, said tourism industry seemed to recover, although it was too early to make accurate predictions.
"" The numbers are not really cancelled were as dire as the first,"he said.""Some targets because of the crisis suffered greatly, but others are better than before."
From ABC News
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