Deputy Tourism Minister Elena Rapti in an interview with Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Monday (Christmas) highlighted that tourism education for the development of a modern, sustainable, and quality tourism model is of strategic importance and referred to the fact that 80 percent of Higher Schools of Tourism Education and Tourism Ministry’ Vocational Training Institutes (IEK) students are absorbed by the labor market.
She also said that the Tourism Ministry has launched the largest subsidized educational program for workers and temporary unemployed in the tourism industry with at least 18,000 participants that will receive 1,250 euros in compensation for their participation. Referring to the major problem of the housing of the workers at tourism destinations, she noted that the ministry is seeking solutions such as real estate development and in parallel is examining the possibility of turning old hotels into residences.
At the same time, Rapti referring to the development of alternative forms of tourism noted that the Tourism ministry is striving to upgrade the existing and promote the construction of new infrastructure works that will concern the alternative forms of tourism as diving and underwater tourism, the cycling tourism, the agro-tourism and the gastronomy tourism.
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