The announcements of the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, from the TIF platform, caused problems in the world of hotels in the country, according to the president of the Panhellenic Hoteliers’ Federation (POX), Yiannis Hatzis.
Mr. emphasized. Hatzis without interventions so that tourism can continue its great contribution to the economy and society, such as the plan for infrastructure, upgrading the quality of the product but also for the sustainability of businesses and local communities. .
“Unfortunately, these requests have been left on the shelf,” said Mr. Hatzis in his statement and said that once again followed the good path of further burdening the hotel.
POX: No intervention for tourism
Specifically, it states the following:
A) Increase in the stability fee in the months of the period and before until now there is an account of how the resources collected from its institution are used and what they have done.
B) A 50% increase in fees for non-residents and in fact horizontal, while it is clear that any additional burden caused by public infrastructure in the years 2009-2023 is not due to legal hotel accommodation.
At this point, Mr. Hatzis mentioned that in a five-year period (2019-2023) the beds in short-term rentals increased by 100%, while the beds in hotel units moved up by only 3.5%, as shown by Grant Thornton’s study for XEE, where it was also noted that the increase in short-term rentals means a greater amount of waste generated per visitor (+20 %) compared to long-term tenants.
Finally, on the issue of short-term rentals, Mr. Hatzis emphasized that there will be no major changes in short-term rentals, where no serious restrictions have been placed, according to our heard in TIF.