lolGodius wrote:sponsored by northwestern european taxpayers
But you need to look at what tourists go for. It is mainly for sun, sea, sand and historic architecture across many small islands. I'd imagine only a small majority goes to athens.Gaz. wrote:Given that tourism makes up so much of their GDP, it probably isn't that bad an idea. It may be an incredibly unpopular concept amongst the Greek public though and it isn't like there's much chance of the track getting used other than other international events such as F1, WEC, MotoGP and WSB although WEC doesn't enjoy the enormous ticket sales of the other three events, even if it does beat having an empty & disused track gathering dust.
Going by 2010 figures, Attica gets the second highest number of tourists, and even the Eurovision song contest boosted visitor numbers to Athens.astracrazy wrote:But you need to look at what tourists go for. It is mainly for sun, sea, sand and historic architecture across many small islands. I'd imagine only a small majority goes to athens.Gaz. wrote:Given that tourism makes up so much of their GDP, it probably isn't that bad an idea. It may be an incredibly unpopular concept amongst the Greek public though and it isn't like there's much chance of the track getting used other than other international events such as F1, WEC, MotoGP and WSB although WEC doesn't enjoy the enormous ticket sales of the other three events, even if it does beat having an empty & disused track gathering dust.