Santorini is looking for staff to serve tourists (video)

The season is no longer around the mountains, and on Santorini, the pearl of beach holidays, preparation for it is in full swing.

Despite the seismicactivity, Writes EURONEWS, the island is waiting for many tourists. On the eve of the opening of the tourist season, Santorini are looking for staff.

A series of earthquakes on the Greek Island, where a state of emergency and evacuationworries not only seismologists, but also hotel owners. The season opens on April 1, The main reservations are madeand potential guests do not plan to cancel them.

Santorini can rightly be called the “breadwinner” of Greece, it provides almost 3% of the country's GDP or 6 billion euros per year. The population of the island is only 13 thousand people, and tourists annually accept up to three million.

Some believe that such a tributary of the GOST is overwhelmed by Santorini and even risky: Luxurious hotels sometimes hang over the landslide slopesvolcanic soil is unstable. Hotel owner and supporter of restrictions on the influx of tourists Giorgos Damigos says:

“Now a predatory business approach reigns here. Only numbers are important. The state should stop perceiving Santorini as income. Perhaps what happened here will make people understand what is put on the card.”

John Sigalas is the owner of the restaurant. His institution was some time Closed due to earthquakesemployees evacuated. When the danger has passed, not everyone returned. Sigalas says that the season opens with many unknowns. The main problem of the upcoming summer seems to be not a shortage of tourists, but the intended Lack of labor for servicing guests.

It is worth recalling that at the height of the tourist season in the Santorini tourist sector, up to 55 thousand people work.

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