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Tourism Minister Charis Theocharis on Wednesday spoke of a new strategic plan concerning sustainable tourism, which can be brought about by consultation with the tourism industry itself so that new tourism products will have an ecological footprint and not burden the natural environment, in an address to the Third Sustainability Summit for South-East Europe and the Mediterraneans held in Athens on October 16-17.

"Sustainable development must be the basic pillar of the development strategy of the Greek tourism," the president of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), Andreas Andreadis, said at the Economist's Congress Sustainability Summit for Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean.