Tackling over-tourism in Greece
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Victoria Craig whisks us off to the Greek island of Tinos to find out about a Greek government strategy to prevent over-tourism.
On this virtual vacation, you'll meet an artisan cheesemaker, some travellers, and a restaurant owner to find out whether the government strategy to promote travel to less well known destinations is working, or even welcomed. There are concerns the strategy could erode traditional ways of life on the Greek islands and in the Greek villages tourists don't often reach.
Presenter: Victoria Craig Production: Stephen Ryan and Dimitris Zivopoulos Image: Cheese making in Tinos; Credit: BBC
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Victoria Craig and in this edition, |
| 0:06.6 | we're whisking you away to the Greek island of Tinos. Yes, their sun, sand and plenty of fun to be |
| 0:12.6 | had, but it's also lacking something you expect to find on many of these famous aisles, |
| 0:18.4 | hordes of people. We didn't want to go somewhere which was really busy, |
| 0:22.5 | and we were staying outside of the town, |
| 0:24.9 | so we found it was quite calm compared to other islands, definitely. |
| 0:30.0 | Without the crush of summer tourism, |
| 0:32.2 | some argue the island has the space to allow creators, |
| 0:35.5 | like specialist cheesemakers who call this place home, to flourish or |
| 0:39.6 | mature, if you will. |
| 0:42.4 | When someone comes to Tinos and tries it, he will have the taste. |
| 0:46.2 | Then he will try it again in Athens and his mind will go back to Tinos. |
| 0:51.8 | But can there be harmony between tourism and tradition? |
| 0:55.4 | And if so, is it necessary to lure vacation goers to the lesser-known Greek islands? |
| 1:00.5 | Those questions and their answers all ahead on Business Daily from the BBC. Like clockwork each morning, a fleet of giant ferry boats wait at the port of Rafina, |
| 1:20.0 | around 30 kilometers east of the Greek capital Athens. |
| 1:23.3 | At 7.15 on the dot, one recent weekend morning, our boat, loaded with both people and their cars, |
| 1:29.7 | pushes away from the dock and heads out into the sparkling turquoise water of the Aegean Sea. |
| 1:35.1 | We are destined for Tinos, one of 33 islands and islets that make up the Cyclades, |
| 1:40.3 | one of the country's most famous island groups. |
| 1:43.2 | Our stop is known among Christians, |
| 1:45.3 | thousands of whom make an annual August pilgrimage |
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