Greece Tourism failing to attract Tourists

 
Violence protests in Athens have left Greece Tourism in loop. Despite the efforts of Greece Tourism, tourists are not visiting the country, which is destroying tourism.

The reason for behind this beautiful country falling to attract tourists is violence and unpredictable strikes. Since early March over 27,000 nights are canceled in Athens Hotels. Experts are estimating $100 millions of losses to tourism sector of Greece.

People are scared to travel to Greece after the violence especially with their families. Greece is one of the premier destinations for family vacation but in today's scenario, nobody wants to risk lives of their children by visiting Greece. Travel Websites are full of questions related to tourism. Easy Destination alone has answered thousands of queries from worried tourists.

The current situation was ideal for a big boom in Greece Tourism; Euro is falling comparing to Dollar which makes Greece a very good buy. Since tourists are avoiding beaches of Florida, white sandy beaches of Greece with crystal blue water on thousands of Islands would have been overcrowded with tourists.

But consistent reports of violence and excessive media coverage is not helping in selling Greece Tourism. Tourism and Hotel Industry in Greece hoped for a bounce back after Euro started to fall but all hope have been faded.

Greece Tourism is expecting 7-9 per cent drop in tourism for next few months. Hotels Booking is pretty much flat out. Tourists numbers are dropping from Germany and England which makes for one third of Greece tourists.

Greece Tourism officials has come in to action by setting up emergency tourism committee and promotion campaign assuring tourists safety in Greece, but its hard to buy these ads when on the other channel horrific images of Greece Violence is being showed.

With no hope of any help from government, tourism industry is giving another push by slashing prices of tour packages. Hotels have also announced to cut prices by 15 per cent to attract tourists. Tour Operators are trying to project Greece as a cheap tourism destination to attract more tourists, but deep down they know that until protests on the streets of Athens will continue, all their efforts will go down the drain.