The tourist season has been extended, Kikilias says

Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias in an interview with Open TV on Tuesday referred to the extension of the tourist season, which now starts in early spring and extends until the beginning of winter.

"The tourist season has been extended and now when we talk about holidays we are not only referring to the three months of summer. From the beginning of March, Americans, Canadians, Australians, Chinese and all the Europeans of course, Israelis, and travelers from the Middle East started arriving with direct flights, and this will continue until the end of the year. Therefore, we have an ongoing tourism product," he said.

As he pointed out, the rebranding of Greece played a decisive role in the development of tourism in the last two years, due to the successful management of the first waves of the pandemic, when quick reflexes and key political interventions helped so that the health system does not collapse, as happened in other more powerful European states.