Hotel owners, mostly of the Greek island, said on Monday that the seamen's strike on Holy Tuesday and Wednesday has given the final blow to the Greek tourism, underlining inter alia that the repercussions do not stop inside the Greek borders but also affect the foreign tourist markets, especially the important German and British markets.

The situation is anything but optimistic, the president of Zakynthos island Hoteliers Union Christina Tetradi told AMNA, noting that the decline in reservations on Zakynthos exceeds 50 percent. The same image prevails also on Corfu, the most popular tourist destination for the Easter holiday, where reservations have posted a 30 percent decline in occupancy.

According to Cephalonia Hoteliers Union president Spyros Galiatsatios, the damage has already been done, and he expressed the fear that the seamen's strike will have again severe repercussion on reservations from Germany, and reminded that the burning query put to Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos during his visit to the international tourist exhibition in Berlin, was regarding the strikes in Greece.