New holiday tax Greece

[CameronK]

Hi everyone, received an email from easyJet regarding Greeces new compulsory tourism tax to help with natural disasters caused by climate change. It's based on a star system so a 4* stay will cost me 49 euro. Quite rubbish when you've already paid so much for a holiday and going to contribute by being a tourist over there spending your money. Now they want to take it before you've even put your bags away. Just wanted to get people's opinion on this as it just feels like a way to get us to pay for something everybody knows is happening around the world, climate change has been going on for years it's not new news.

Been to Greece multiples times over the years and have always had to pay this, it's not a new thing.

Eh???
Where was I twatty?
There are ways of having a conversation that don't always have to have a nasty tone to them.
That was the point I was trying to make.
It seems that even the most innocuous post at the moment have posters queueing up to hang draw and quarter the OP.

Sure you are right, I was being a bit cheeky because of course it would never be a corruption thing!

I say this after once sitting in a coffee shop in Sicily and watching the vendor trying to discreetly hand a visiting policeman a brown envelope I'm sure not full of cash!

€49 is really not that much compared with the cost of a holiday. Having been close to wildfires twice now in Greece I am glad they are investing.