THE VIBE
LOOKING AHEAD
To meet the new challenges of today and tomorrow, the city is putting bold plans in place, seeking resilience through adaptability.
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t’s not easy to stand back and look objectively at the city where you’ve lived all your life. You’ve seen it go through rough patches, transform itself, suffer wounds, and rise to its feet again. And then, just as it’s marching successfully towards a brighter future, welcoming 6.3 million foreign tourists in 2019, you see it freeze once more, this time in the midst of a global standstill. The storm of the pandemic is still raging, but even when calm returns, the Greek capital – which recorded a significant increase in visitor arrivals in the first two months of
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2020 compared to the previous years – will be mopping up the floodwaters for some time. In the evenings prior to the second lockdown, the few lit hotel rooms on Syngrou Avenue acted as an informal barometer. The avenue, which starts at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in the city center and ends at the seafront, has established itself over the past couple of years as a new hospitality hotspot, with new hotels opening one after another. Visitors, however, remain scarce and the outlook for the next few months
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BY A L E X A N DR A M A N DR A KOU
