Seven new hotel units, with a total capacity of about 5,000 beds, will be added to Costa Navarino within the coming years, TEMES owner Achilleas Konstantakopoulos announced during his speech at an event organized by the Messinia Chamber of Commerce on “The Impact of Investment in Local Communities: The Costa Navarino Example”, which was attended by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis last weekend.
Two of the new hotels will be constructed in Gialova with 322 and 814 beds respectively and they are expected to be fully operational by 2021, four more will be established in Risomylos with a total capacity of over 3,000 beds and the remaining two will be built in Navarino Hills near Kinigou with a total of 875 beds.
Mr. Konstantakopoulos stressed the need to upgrade the Kalamata airport as well as construct the Kalamata – Pylos – Methoni motorway so that Costa Navarino and the wider area of Messinia will emerge as a model destination in the Mediterranean, which many people will want not only to visit but also to live in.
In the meanwhile, the direct and indirect impact on Messinia’s economy from Costa Navarino’s operation during the last 10 years is estimated at over 2 billion euros, according to figures released on Saturday, October 19 by the President of the Department of Tourism Studies of the University of Piraeus Nikolaos Georgopoulos. According to the same data, the total impact of Costa Navarino on the GDP of the Messinia Prefecture exceeds 8%.
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