Jaunted

Flights have been disrupted. As have trains. As have public services like rail. There's a reason why the strike in general is being covered specifically as a transport strike.

We can't even recommend in good conscience, the way we have in the past, that you maybe risk a trip to Greece to score good deals thanks to the country's increasingly desperate tourism industry. There's no way of knowing in advance, for instance, if ferry workers won't just go on strike and leave a bunch of islands and islanders abandoned, which has now happened twice in the last few weeks.

So as we said: obviously it's not our place to decide for the Greeks whether or not a transport strike is worth further damaging their tourism industry. But we do know that travelers tend to avoid places where there's no reliable air, rail, and water transport. That's why last time time Greek workers pulled this precise trick of suspending tourism-related industries, travelers shifted to Bulgaria. Predictably.

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