Crete and Tourism

One of my teachers, several decades ago expressed the view that "tourism is equivalent to prostitution". If a country has poor productive infrastructure, almost its sole source of money influx is tourism.  So is the case with Greece. For various reasons, Greece has no significant technological or industrial background and its brightest brains seek careers abroad. This is the reason so much is sacrificed in the name of tourism.

...Your teacher was wrong

Hi Vasili,I think your teacher might have been right,however tourism can work well if central and local governments get their act together with the correct type of humans employed within them who care enough or can be bothered enough to ensure the safety of the planet and the humans who live and will live upon it in the future.I find it especially alarming that Greek people are not tuned to environmental issues,they do not teach their children well,in academic subjects they pay and pay for so many years but whether their children have any soul at the end of it is doubtful.Their curriculum is not there to teach holistically or encourage the type of humans that this planet deserves.Greece did have a fair bit of industry but of course it has always been the master of the waves with its shipping and many have earned a life times wages from that.I think the EU has done a lot of damage to small industry here,it has encouraged the destruction of traditional small wooden fishing boats so as to discourage the simple low-catch fishermen who are required to stand there and watch the boat being destroyed,get the certificate of proof and then run along to be handed a paltry sum of money,and that pathetic  act  is supposed to leave more fish in the sea while the big boys catch by sonar and huge nets.Since the crisis the EU Dogs have pushed Greece into extreme tourism and to sell off too much at cheap rates to the Chinese.In fairness many of the takeovers such as Frapport,the German company, with the regional airports have made fantastic improvements which were badly needed and unfortunately because of Greece having very poor management ability and history like most Mediterranean countries the Chinese have vastly improved Greek major ports  which of course serves their future goals,what ever they may be.Greece has such opportunities with some areas having a unique micro climate that they could lead Europe in food production using biological and sympathetic methods in keeping with protecting the land and without exploiting nature which seems sometimes all that humans wish to do.

Just to say that Frapport has not bought regional airports,they have leased them at x amount rent per year,I guess the Chinese have done the same with the sea ports.