Tourism industry warning

The Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) is warning of possible long-term impacts on the competitiveness of the Greek tourism product as a result of the increase in hotel accommodation fees and other charges thanks to a bill by the Ministry of National Economy and Finance.

At the same time, it calls for ensuring the investment of these takings in infrastructure and other projects related to tourism, and also for tourism not to be the only sector that finances the natural disaster response fund.

In particular, it considers the climate crisis resilience fee for hotel customers, which came into effect at the beginning of 2024 and is now increasing further, to be a purely revenue-generating fiscal measure. Furthermore, it speaks of the absence of any account of the revenue already collected and of the return on projects and actions that were channeled.

"The financing...