AGORA – Should Greek-Americans Vacation in Greece This Year?

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AGORA – Should Greek-Americans Vacation in Greece This Year?

Antonis H. Diamataris and Constantinos E. Scaros

From time to time an issue emerges and inspires various minds to converge, often at odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, collective enlightenment will result from such conversations. The Ancient Greeks did that in the Agora, the original marketplace of ideas, and we, their modern-day descendants, aspire to continue that tradition.

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May 31, 2012

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1. LOUIS TSAKIRIS wrote on May 31, 2012 8:50 PM	Our people aren't that bad(some can be) but most of us know enough Greek to communicate ok and in Greece they think it's great that we know something. My daughters are 5th generation on moms side and 3rd on mine and their Greek is good enough to get along fine. My middle daughter is going this August for two weeks with no thought of not going. I go in the fall, why would I not? Weather is great food great people friendly.All my American friends that went last summer strikes and all loved it all had a great time!

2. Philip Vorgias wrote on May 31, 2012 11:36 PM	Sure, why not vacation in Greece? Bring some badly needed money to the economy. And also some badly needed advice. We in the Diaspora need to tell citizens in the motherland they're on the path to destruction. Without reforms that nation will be the next Albania-and I'm talking mainly about labor reforms. All Greeks know these things, of course. But they need to hear it from those of us in the States, they need to hear it from outsiders. Simply tell them that there are many options in the world for tourists to consider if they choose not to go to Greece. Offering high prices, poor service and continual labor problems is NO way to attract tourists. If Athens can't reform it's workforce than Greece needs to consider another destination for travellers to enter the country-like Thessaloniki or Crete. Outside of Athens Greece is still a marvelous place. That's where 99% of the problems are.

3. Nicholas Kostopoulos wrote on June 03, 2012 10:40 PM	Its fine and dandy to go to Greece, to help their economy, but if you walk into a government collapse, You risk getting stranding on a island with no ferry service (Strike), riots to demand jobs, and more money, or at the extreme end a revolution to change the government to either a military or dictatorship. I think my life is more important than saving Greece from itself. on a island
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