Liaskos: Tourism is an important growth factor

Focusing on initiatives for attracting foreign and domestic investments, Liaskos said that tourism has been institutionally safeguarded with recent laws,…

The Greek tourist product is on a development course, with the Tourism Ministry secretary general Anastasios Liaskos underlining at the conference ""Investments and Prospects for Economic Growth in Greece 2014" that the ministry's systematic efforts can create 220,000 new jobs in the next decade.

Focusing

on initiatives for attracting foreign and domestic investments, Liaskos said that tourism has been institutionally safeguarded with recent laws, encouraging entrepreneurship and investment.

The secretary general reiterated Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' announcement that the government will invest around 500 million euros annually in tourism infrastructure and services over the next five years. These funds will come from the new NSRF for the 2014-2020 programming period.

The aim, Liaskos said, is the development of high quality infrastructure and innovative tourist products as well as the attraction of strategically profitable direct foreign investments and visitors with high disposable income.

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