#tourists in greece

[gemsofgreece]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJQAEkGx/

Ah yes the typical USian that goes to Europe and tries to make everything into a corporation for business money while also comparing it to the US 😂

Hahaha these dudes are funny! Also the tall one does look Greek lol

[sugaroto]

"Soon they'll tell us to not make noise cause the tourists are sleeping

They told us not to go on vacation during July and August so the tourists wouldn't be bothered

They told the residents of Santorini to not circulate in the streets and bother the tourists

They ask the residents of the islands to not use a lot of water so the tourists can have

Soon they'll tell us to not make noise cause the tourists are sleeping"

I am a resident of an island. For weeks during the afternoon the water would stop, my mom who works 12 hours a day would come home tired and couldn't have a shower, apparently they were filling up the pools.

My island is big enough, I've been to a smaller island which has a water problem and they had signs inside the hotel "do not use a lot of water, we have a problem". Now this advice only goes to locals? And the problem now exists in inlands that didn't have this kind of problem before?

According to the comments of the original post, they've already been telling people to not make noise cause the tourists are bothered

A comment wrote "Soon they'll tell us to move out of our houses so the tourists can come" which, already has been happening.

Rented houses becoming Airbnb or really fucking expensive

Doctors, teachers and students are getting kicked out of their homes so tourists can go in

We don't have doctors. People are dying.

We need to send sick persons to Athens or bigger islands with a helicopter

Some years ago, a lady died in the back of a truck. The ambulance was in a different place of the island attending some tourists. They put the woman in a truck, a dentist who was nearby tried to help with any medical knowledge he had, they put her in the truck and a police car made way in front of them while they ran to the hospital. They didn't make it in time

Tourists with the rental cars are all over the street going as slow as possible while a mother has to run behind them in traffic to get her kid in different kind of classes

[meteoriteslunar]

[fallensapphires]

Destinations: Athens

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts

And eloquence.

[alatismeni-theitsa]

https://youtu.be/-tqop31_bzk?si=XAa_a8o4JC23vShY Δεν ξέρω αν έχεις προλάβει να δεις αυτό το βίντεο αλλά στο στέλνω σε κάθε περίπτωση γιατί σε θυμήθηκα όταν το έβλεπα. Είναι ένα απ'τα αγαπημένα μου κανάλια και νομίζω πως έκανε καλή δουλειά.

"We saw, with horror, the way others see us"

This is an amazing video essay and, once I had the pleasure of watching it, I thought of making it as known as possible! It's certainly true for Greeks. It's done a great job at depicting how tourists see Greeks, and how Greeks see tourists. Thanks for sending 💙💙💙

Ο τυπος εχει κανει εξαιρετικη ερευνα, και για τη Μαρινα και για τα βιντεο της, και για την Ελλαδα γενικοτερα. Ενιωσα πως αυτος μας "εβλεπε" , και το πως βλεπουμε εμεις τους τουριστες, με τον πιο ρεαλιστικο τροπο.

[nando161mando]

17,000 tourists arrived today with cruise ships in Santorini, a small Greek island. Santorini's total population is 17,000 citizens. Overtourism is real and it's scary.

[intheblossomtree]

[nachteulennachathen]

Exarchia, Tourists go home, oder warum eine Ubahnbaustelle mit massenhaft Polizei verteidigt werden muss:

Natürlich kennen wir auch schon lange die Probleme die AirBnB & Co für Mietpreise in beliebten Städten bedeuten. Oft genug stiegen wir am Balkan in Vierteln ab, deren Türen mit Schlüsseltresoren für Touristen nur so übersät waren, die Viertel selbst oft nur noch rein kommerzielle Amüsiermeilen für aus wie inländische Jugend ohne wirkliche lokale Struktur. In Exarchia, dem inzwischen ehemaligen Hausbesetzerviertel springt es einen aber geradezu von jeder Wand an. Der von mir dazu und zu den vielen gruppenweise durchs Viertel ziehenden vollausgerüsteten Polizistentrupps befragte Friseur hat es mir dann bei einem, ziemlich guten, Haarschnitt auf Englisch erklärt; Seit vor einigen Jahren die meisten besetzten Häuser geräumt wurden, sind auch in Exarchia die Mieten hochgegangen, auf die übliche Art verschärft durch AirBnB., die Zahl der Obdachlosen auf den Straßen stieg sichtbar an. Jetzt soll das Viertel 2 neue Ubahnhaltestellen bekommen und es wird, vermutlich mit Recht, befürchtet, dass das die touristische Gentrifizierung noch verstärken wird. Deswegen kam und kommt es, rund um die Baustellen immer wieder zu Demonstrationen und Auseinandersetzungen. So handfest, dass komplette Mannschaftsbusse wochenlang davor parken und trotz massivem Einsatz immer wieder neue Transparente am Bauzaun landen oder der Bau selbst sabotiert wird. Die Baustelle wirkt wie eine Hochsicherheitsfestung mitten im Viertel und den Polizisten ist anzumerken, dass sie wissen, dass sie hier nicht beliebt sind.

Nicht mal bei meinem Friseur.

Das Viertel ist trotzdem noch uber alle Maßen lebendig, mit selbstorganisierten Soliküchen, guten Livemusikläden und so etwas wie einem spürbaren Zusammenhalt.

[beneaththemooon]

[sidabro]

its my turn to say that seeing memes and posts about the tipping culture in america makes my eyebrows reach my forehead.. sjfjjefbjshdi its 1-2 euros if the service is good no matter where when or how big the total is.. if i ate for a hundred eur i woulsnt be leaving 15 or even TWENTY? what fuck is this dbrjdhiwhdbe

[expedia-worldwide]

[gemsofgreece]

Cute little video (also I LOVE that song) even though some of the choices are basic, there were options more suitable for this video, anyway still pretty

[meteoriteslunar]

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Greece fires: Satellite images and maps show extent of damage

25 July 2023

Tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes and abandon holidays on Greek islands including Rhodes and Corfu as fires spread across the region.

In Rhodes, a black scar has been scorched across the middle of the island to the southern town of Kiotari.

Satellite images show the extent of the damage to the popular holiday resort.

The flames have destroyed many homes and businesses in the town.

The fires have been burning since last week on Rhodes, where temperatures have reached 45C.

More than 30,000 people have fled the flames on the island since the weekend, Greece's largest-ever wildfire evacuation.

Some 16,000 people have been transported across land and another 3,000 evacuated by sea, police say. Others have had to leave by road or use their own transport.

They include thousands of tourists who had to make for temporary shelters like sports stadiums before getting the emergency planes laid on by travel companies.

But with Greece in the middle of a long spell of extreme heat that has increased the risk of wildfires across the country, Rhodes is not the only place that has been affected.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says the country is "at war" with the wildfires and warns it faces "another three difficult days ahead" before temperatures are expected to drop.

Civil Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilia says fire crews have been fighting more than 500 fires across the country over the past 12 days - including in Midea on the mainland.

Firefighters also say the situation in Corfu and Evia is not totally under control.

Satellite images show smoke blowing from fires on the blackened hills near Kassiopi in the north of Corfu.

And Crete, the largest of the Greek Islands, has been also been put on high alert because of an extreme risk of fire.

The situation in Greece is the result of a heatwave across southern Europe and northern Africa that has helped create dry conditions and also let fires take hold in Sicily, Croatia, Algeria and Tunisia.

The situation would have been "virtually impossible" without human-induced climate change, scientists say, adding it has made the heatwave in Europe 2.5C hotter.

By Chris Clayton, Dominic Bailey, Tural Ahmedzade, and Kate Gaynor

[greekbros]

(looks like Greece is going to have a tourist boom soon because ugh)

(cus it looks you'll be arrested for pronouncing certain words incorrectly)