Last year "closed" with receipts of close to 22 billion euros and the bets for this year are already that tourism can "catch" 23 billion euros, with all that this entails for tax revenues.

Tourism businesses in Santorini are in a race against time to recover lost ground, as the intense seismic activity in the region appears to be subsiding and the island is gradually return to cautious “normalcy“.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed that “ tourism development should be sustainable, resilient, fair, and participatory” and that “ the dividend of growth should be distributed as fairly as possible throughout the country.”