Greece 開始 to tourists in July but hoteliers 恐れる empty beaches
By Deborah Kyvrikosaios
ATHENS, April 29 (Reuters) - Greece hopes to welcome 支援する tourists from July, but hoteliers 推定する／予想する a 荒涼とした season, 恐れるing the coronavirus pandemic will keep 訪問者s away and beaches empty.
観光旅行，事業 is a major income earner for Greece. It drew 34 million 訪問者s last year, bringing in 18 billion euros ($19.52 billion) in 歳入, about 10-12% of 経済的な 生産（高）, and 供給するd 雇用 for about one in five of the 全労働人口.
"観光旅行，事業 is 直面するing its biggest 危機 of our 世代," said the 大統領，／社長 of Corfu's hotel 協会 Charalambos Voulgaris, owner of two 訴える手段／行楽地s on the Greek island on the Ionian Sea.
Long stretches of beach, some dotted with 列／漕ぐ／騒動s of umbrellas, 嘘（をつく） empty on Corfu and hoteliers like Voulgaris wonder whether they will open their doors this summer.
A lockdown from March 23 to 抑制（する） the spread of the new coronavirus, which was 効果的な in 避けるing high 率s of fatalities seen in other European countries, is 推定する／予想するd to take a （死傷者）数. Greece is now trying to save what is left of the season.
乗客 traffic 急落（する），激減（する）d by as much as 90% for フェリー（で運ぶ）s, によれば the 乗客 Shipping 商売／仕事 協会, and by 59% パーセント for 国内の and international flights in March, によれば the Civil 航空 当局.
"We are going to have very low occupancy 率s. We don't know if our hotels will open, when they will open, so we are 権利 now on the brink of very hard times," Voulgaris said.
Harry Theocharis, Greece's 観光旅行，事業 大臣, says the 計画（する） is to welcome 支援する tourists in July.
The 政府 will begin to 徐々に 緩和する the lockdown on May 4 and hotels operating year 一連の会議、交渉／完成する will be able to open on June 1.
"I guess this is the million-dollar question. We are 目的（とする）ing to open up いつか in July," Theocharis told Reuters TV.
"This season is not going to be like the other years, I would be a fool to believe that this could ever be the 事例／患者. However, there is a lot that we can do to re-open the tourist economy, the flows," he said.
Greece has 記録，記録的な／記録するd 2,566 事例／患者s of COVID-19 感染s and 138 fatalities. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Deborah Kyvrikosaios; 令状ing by George Georgiopoulos; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
