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Tourism and Environmental Concerns

In: The Greek Economy

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  • Nicholas G. Pirounakis

    (Economic Research and Analysis Ltd)

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Tourism is one of Greece’s five major industries (the other four being agriculture, food and drink processing, construction and shipping). A sixth — entertainment in all its forms — should also be given pride of place, only to a large extent it overlaps with tourism. So does transport, for that matter, and construction, on account of the hotels and rooms-to-let continuously built in Greece in order to accommodate the crowds of tourists. On the face of it, tourism is a success story: in 1995 10.7 m. tourists arrived at Greece, about the same number as the local population. It is also the only industry that is truly universal, open to anybody anywhere, involving entrepreneurs of any financial means, umpteen kinds of businesses, premises of any size, urban as well as rural Greece. But development of the industry has happened haphazardly, often stupidly, with no clear overall direction, and to the detriment of picturesqueness and the environment. One could say that in her opportunistic and frantic attitude to tourism Greece has been killing the goose laying the golden eggs.

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  • Nicholas G. Pirounakis, 1997. "Tourism and Environmental Concerns," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Greek Economy, chapter 10, pages 229-249, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37486-7_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230374867_11
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