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Athens
It’s been a busy winter in downtown Athens, where scaffolding, tarpaulins and dust have been symbols of hope: a mini construction boom heralding a tourist renaissance, The Guardian newspaper reported.
Nine hotels are being built or restored around the city centre. Their arrival correlates with the huge upturn in holidaymakers visiting the Greek capital since a low point in late 2008.
“It’s a miracle, what’s been happening in Athens?”, Greece’s tourism chief, Andreas Andreadis, told the Observer newspaper. “The tourist industry in Greece grew two to three times faster than in Spain, Portugal, Italy or France last year. This year we expect around 4.5 million visitors in Athens alone.”
A record 23.5 million holidaymakers visited Greece in 2015 – generating 14.2 bn euros in direct receipts, or 24% of gross domestic product.
In 2010, at the start of the country’s debt crisis – which has seen it struggle to avert default and remain in the euro – revenues from tourism were 10 bn euros, or 15% of GDP.
Read the full story in The Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/28/greece-tourism-boom-athens-jobs-growth
News source: The Guardian – www.theguardian.com
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