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.

Greece’s new minister of tourism, Harry Theoharis, has assumed his duties, citing intentions of improving infrastructure, developing thematic tourism forms, enhancing education and training and, upgrading the quality of offered services to tourists that visit the country.

German magazine Focus in a recent article deifies Haris Theocharis and blaststhe Greek government describing the removal of the General Secretary of Revenue “a chilling political farce.”