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Greece battling Spain, Portugal for German tourists

Greece is going to battle it out with Spain and Portugal to attract the biggest possible share of tourists from major markets this summer, especially Germany, as the big German tour operators have started aggressively promoting packages to Greece and the Balearics - the islands that have done better at combating Covid-19 than continental Spain.

German Tourism Weekly: 'Smells Like Bulgarian Summer'

With good bargains, many renovated hotels and a number of events Bulgaria "has turned professional" as a tourist destination, a German weekly media outlet writes.

Touristik Aktuell, which is specialized in writing about travels, events and destinations, quotes [DE] an official for German travel agency Schauinsland-Reisen as saying: "It smells like a Bulgarian summer."