Greece launched its tourism season Friday amid a competitive scramble across the Mediterranean to lure vacationers emerging from lockdowns. Now we wait,” Kapri said, standing beside large display cabinets with fresh fish on beds of crushed ice. But southern member-states, driven deeper into debt by the pandemic and highly dependent on tourism revenues, are not waiting. Travelers in the UK pounced on the news, according to Emma Coulthurst from holiday price comparison site TravelSupermarket. Zeynep Bilginsoy in Istanbul, Turkey, Barry Hatton in Lisbon, Portugal, Karl Ritter in Rome and Joe Wilson in Barcelona, Spain contributed.

Source: ABC News May 14, 2021 11:48 UTC