Posted on 01/27/2015 7:33:58 AM PST by C19fan
Greece's new radical Prime Minister has declared war on the country's all-inclusive holiday resorts and vowed to limit them. All-you-can-eat breakfast buffets and unlimited cocktails and ouzo by the pool could become a thing of the past in Greece despite the all-inclusive travel industry, that brings in £1.5billion for the country. Alexis Tsipras, leader of the triumphant anti-bailout party Syriza, believes such deals 'alienate tourists from the local economy' by keeping them behind resort gates and away from local businesses and attractions. He has warned that contracts with large resort chains will be reviewed and deals to sell public land to developers could be reopened.
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It's like being on a cruise ship. The cruise might be cheap, but everything else is expensive and that's pure profit.
Correct.
I took a look at the platform of the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left), which just won the Greek election:
Reneg on loans, nationalize multiple industries (banks, hospitals, etc.), multiple new and increased taxes, massive new welfare programs and spending, withdraw from NATO, gut the military, attack the church (e.g. turn church buildings into homeless shelters), etc.
They are the national wrecking crew. Greece has screwed itself mightily.
On those small islands, don’t the tourists experience the local culture on their own? That wouldn’t be the “all-inclusive” situation where most tourists don’t leave hotel grounds.
When you see how the “small businesses” screw tourists, you can understand the attraction of “all-inclusive”; nobody should pay those prices if they can avoid it.
Will tours of ‘ghost resorts’ be allowed? Can tourists pay money to see the ruins of recently thriving all inclusive resorts?
Eventually Russians will bail out Greece and bring their Orthodox brethren into their fold.
Greece- start stocking up on toilet paper, and get ready to wait in long lines at stores with empty shelves-your about to become Venezuela.
Russia is broke too
Greece will soon become just like Venezuela.
your=you’re
Most Europeans won't be able to afford to rent a car, so they just stay at the resort as the packages include bus transfer from the airport.
The hotels do have tours you can go on, but usually the all-inclusive hotel is the way to go for normal over-taxed Euro folks.
Why this d-bag wants to go after them can be only explained by political reasons. It's a slim market IMO, as the tour companies in UK and Euro-mainland likely get a percentage of the hotel take, as the low travel costs are attractive to pull customers in and the profit is probably made on drinks, incidentals, etc.
Not the oligarchs.
Stay tuned for the 2nd Greek Civil War.
Why dont the locals get together and start offering their own package deals to compete with the big hotels?
They want to screw those places, but offer nothing but the expectation that you are going to naturally hand them money?
I think it makes sense to pare back the all-inclusive model and let local cities and regions decide how best to market their attractions.
“One usually becomes a leftist when one realizes that even the most simple things are virtually not understandable.”
yes, and this basically makes leftism is a religion of the ignorant and stupid, because reasonably intelligent and knowledgeable folks can grasp how most things actually work.
Watch. Just like in Egypt, the Military will stage a coup when this clown tanks the Economy even worse than now.
“Guillotines would do the job nicely.”
My own personal solution is the ex-Soviet Gulags. Not so much for leftists in general, but for criminals. The Russians have all of these unused Gulags and also desperately need hard currency, and we have all of these incorrigible criminals who need to be purged from our country. And when I say criminals, I mean everything from street thugs and gang members to Wall Street con artists and thieves, and everything in between. Send ‘em all to the Gulags, pay the Russians to feed them, and let them work things out amongst themselves. Overall, I consider the whole scheme to be one of those win, win, win situations.
simple answer tourists go somewhere else
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