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The Lesvos Hoteliers Association is calling on the government to introduce emergency measures in order to give the island a much-needed boost following the negative impact of the refugee crisis on local tourism.

Most hoteliers in northern Greece are extremely reluctant to rent their rooms to refugees, fearing that this will negatively impact their tourism business, according to UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) officials in Greece. Only a small number of hotels, chiefly those in mountain regions, have embraced the refugee hospitality programmes as a "life-raft" for their ailing businesses, they noted.