ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece said on Wednesday it will offer a week-long free stay on Rhodes in 2024 to tourists whose vacation was cut short by wildfires that burned for days on the island in July, damaging homes and hotels and forcing thousands to evacuate.
Tourism is the main driver of Greece’s economy which emerged from a debt crisis in 2018, and Rhodes, the ninth-largest island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, is a popular holiday spot.
The blaze broke out on July 18 in central Rhodes and fanned by strong winds, the flames spread to the eastern and southern coast, an area with many beach resorts. Greece said it carried out the largest evacuation ever undertaken in the country.
More than 20,000 tourists and locals were forced to flee homes and seaside hotels.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Britain’s ITV on Wednesday that the wildfire affected 15% of Rhodes and that the situation is “back to normal” now but authorities “understand that it caused some inconvenience for visitors.”
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