So when Prokopis Pavlopoulos went off script to entreat CNN’s Christiane Amanpour to visit his country next summer, it was noticeable. “This is a hospitable country,” he said in a rare interview with a foreign TV channel. Figures released by Greece’s tourism confederation, SETE, reveal the extent to which the sector is protecting Europe’s weakest economy. British holidaymakers, after Germans, lead the league tables in arrivals to Greece with an estimated 2.4 million visiting in 2015. “And, if anything, the way it has been treated by the EU has made us want to come back more.

Source: The Guardian September 18, 2016 15:01 UTC