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Finance & Business
Financial crisis leaves euro with new popularity
Greece banks on tourism as crisis stings
Amid street violence, civil service strikes and the economic crisis, Greece is having trouble soliciting the thousands of tourists its economy usually depends on.In the grip of a burgeoning economic crisis that has soured global travel forecasts, the last thing tourist-hungry Greece needed was a blockade of the Acropolis, its main archaeological attraction.
But amid an early slump in bookings that alarms the country's key industry, thousands of visitors have been turned away at the gates of this city's ancient citadel because of a protest by culture ministry staff.
Thousands have been prevented in the last fortnight from accessing the iconic temple, which draws crowds over 100,000 people each month, in a protest against layoffs that is set to continue in mid-March.
The timing is unfortunate for Greece, which in December went through weeks of street violence after the fatal shooting of a teenager by police.
At the time, tourism leaders noted that a locked-up Acropolis was more damaging that the mainly anti-police unrest in which no tourists were harmed.
Unpromising trends
Today, the damage from December is hard to assess but the figures coming in are not pleasant, operators say.
"The violence, along with exaggerated media reports, dented Greece's image," says George Drakopoulos, general manager of the association of Greek tourism enterprises (Sete). "But the measure of harm is hard to gauge right now as we lack arrival results over the entire year to compare to last year's.”
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