Greece is losing over one billion euros in government revenue due to illegal hotels, the president of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, Yiorgos Tsakiris, said during a press conference held on the occasion of the 67th General Assembly of HOTREC that began in Athens yesterday.
According to the calculations of hoteliers, the number of illegal hotels in Greece exceed 50,000 in total thus depriving resources from the local community. If the owners of the illegal 'hotels' are tracked down they would each have to pay a 50,000 euros fine to the Greek state. HOTREC's chairman, Kent Nistrom, referred to the same Europe-wide problem, which has spread tremendously due to the Internet.
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