Tourism in Greece is beating records: « We are overworked! »

« We already have applications for 2019. »
The phone didn’t ring very often in 2011, during the riots, but today Kristos doesn’t even know how to handle the call flow. He runs a travel agency and « for 2019, when we have just started the 2018 season, we already have requests! We are overwhelmed, we have difficulties to find rooms, in particular ».

« We double our sales every year. »
Tourism is now the best opportunity to get out of unemployment. Before the crisis, Tina was a manager at Fnac, with a good salary and a company car. Then Fnac closed, and it spent two years unemployed, before launching its own alternative visits agency in Athens: « we double our turnover every year. Until last year, we were two or three people. This year, there are seven of us. It’s a little scary to see that there’s more work than you can absorb.

All the professionals we met ensure that prices should remain stable. It must be said that they have already mechanically increased with the VAT increase of 24%. A room that used to cost 100 euros now costs 124 euros.