Rhodes tourism still strong

Bringing the destructive wildfire under full control and protecting human life are the two main priorities for tourism professionals on Rhodes, who are also planning for the future.

The destruction of part of the natural environment, the damage suffered by a number of accommodation facilities, as well as the fact that the wildfire has not affected any more than 10% of the island's beds, are the facts surrounding the island's tourism product.

All this has a common denominator, the island's travel agents tell Kathimerini, which is the fact that cancellations of reservations on Rhodes - which last year welcomed some 2.6 million visitors - at least so far, are not many.

Therefore, as businesspeople on the island explain, in the first phase, accommodations located in areas unaffected by the fires are already adopting communication action with the aim of...