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The truth about Greek strikes that weren't there

08:07, 1 июня 2012

Yesterday TV-channels and news agencies reported that “tousands of tourists in Greece are being left to the mercy of fate” because of the hotel workers strike. This news evoked perplexity and even indignation among players on this destination. First, Russian tour operators reported to RUTI’s press relations service that they have no idea about strikes, and afterwards same calls came from Greece. The Head of Labirint Company Tatyana Zotova, being exactly in this country, reported that it’s “calm and sleepy” in Greece and there are no talks about hotels not serving tourists. The Sales Director of Aldemar Hotel chain Dimitris Kharitidis confirmed this information to RATA-news as well.

 

RUTI called the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) for the official clarification and, inspite of Sunday, soon got the answer. The President of SETE Andreas Andreadis reported that at the moment there are no problems with hotels, tourists relax without any worries. He added that recently, and including closing days, there were no strikes in the country.

 

Mr. Andreadis satisfyingly noted the amount of hotels booked by tourists from most of the countris reached the targeted level, and the tour flow from Russia and Ukraine has grown by more than 20% compared to the same period of the last year.

 

It can be suspected where the confusion of the “informational issue” came from. There really was a one-day strike of the hotel workers trade union in the region of Attica where Athens is located. However, by no means it came to the tourists. 150 members of the trade union with posters and battle-cries accompanied by TV cameras went out on the street, and that was it. But, from all appearances, thу First channel showed exactly these frames telling about hotel workers’ strike.

 

In 2011, Greece ranked the eighth place in the rating of the most popular destinations among Russians. According to the Russian Statistics, this country was was visited by 612.5 thousand tourists from Russia which is by 58.4% mora than in 2010. All in all, Greece receives 16 million tourists annually.

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