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Greece may draw a record number of more than 17 million tourists this year as fear of a euro exit dissipates and a decrease in strikes helps the country’s image abroad, the head of the Athens-Attica Hotels Association said.
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The number of international visits to Greece fell 5.5 percent last year, as political turmoil during elections in June and the economic crisis in Europe affected the country’s tourism industry.
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Eleni Alexiou says she can’t afford to take her two children to a Greek island on vacation this year after the government axed her summer bonus and reduced her pay.
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The protests and riots in Athens threaten to undermine tourism, one of Greece’s few growth industries and the country’s best hope of easing the pain of its unprecedented austerity program.
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Passenger traffic at Athens International Airport SA dropped 10 percent last year as the European crisis cut trips by Greek and international travelers.
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Prime Minister George Papandreou ’s attempts to draw tourists to Greece may be undermined by union calls for strikes against new government austerity measures.
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Greece faces the threat of rolling power blackouts as the economic crisis leaves utilities without cash to pay for natural-gas imports and operate power stations.
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Spending by non-residents in Greece increased 12.6 percent in the first half of the year from a year earlier as the number of tourist arrivals increased.
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Greece’s receipts from tourism were 12.5 percent down in the five months through May, as fewer people visited the country.
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German taxi driver Rudolf Kugel, who says he’s visited Greece more times than he can count, won’t be going again anytime soon to the Mediterranean sunspot because he’s concerned about the reaction of local people.
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