Greece aims to exploit untapped tourism revenue by allowing diving for post-19th century shipwrecks in the near future, Tourism Minister Harry Theocharis said Monday as his country is already enjoying growth in the key sector.
"We will liberalise the creation of diving parks. We will allow diving in shipwrecks over 50 years old, which are currently not allowed," Harry Theocharis told AFP in an interview. As Greece slowly emerges from a decade-long financial crisis it relies heavily on tourism to boost economic growth and accelerate job creation.
It expects arrivals will increase by five percent in 2020 from last year when they were 31 million, up 3.6 percent from the previous year.Greece currently draws over three times more tourists than its 10.8 million residents, but Athens still has"a lot of untapped potential," the minister said Monday.
Over 3,000 employees in Greece were also affected, losing seasonal jobs a month early, the minister said. For top island destinations such as Santorini, he says officials are"working to establish a berth allocation system which is more granular... to create incentives or disincentives to spread out flows," he says.
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