Are you a German avoiding Greece this year? So says this provocative Reuters article published last week. Here is the opening with the view from Corinth:
“CORINTH, Greece, April 24 (Reuters) – German tourists are in short supply in Greece these days, frightened away by reports of visceral anti-German sentiment in some places, fears of being stranded by strikes and television images of fiery anti-austerity riots.
Who in their right mind, after all, would want to go on holiday to a place where they might be called a Nazi?
The dearth of Germans is especially noticeable in tourist hotspots like Corinth, an enchanting ancient town 80 km west of Athens famous for the steep and narrow walls of its 6-km (4-mile) long canal that cuts across the Peloponnesian Peninsula.
Because tourism accounts for a disproportionately large 15 percent of Greece’s gross domestic product (GDP) and Germans are the largest group of visitors, their absence is causing pain….”
Read the rest here.
Bill Caraher
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Matthew R. Malcolm
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