European Journal | Greece - Tough Challenge

Tourism alone will decide just how hard Greece is hit by the economic crisis in 2009. Hotel and restaurant owners as well as tour operators are expecting a bleak year. They have launched a large scale advertising campaign featuring the Acropolis,Aegean seas and pictoresque bays,,,but the images that recently made the news were of a very different nature...street fights,protesting farmers and air traffic controllers on strike. The economic crisis has made things worse and tourist figures are already declining.