In the middle of July, at the height of summer tourist seasonpicture in Europe she wasn’t good. Due to the heat, the runway at London Luton Airport was briefly closed, train traffic was delayed or canceled throughout Britain, dozens of weather stations in France recorded record temperatures, and fires broke out in the tourist areas of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy. but also Greece.

“If you were in the city center, you could look out the window and see the Acropolis against the… red background,” says Petros Vlitas, vice president of Internova Travel Group, who was in Athens at the time of the fire. Penteli.

Mr. Vlitas stressed that he smelled smoke from his hotel and sometimes had to close the door to keep the ashes out of his room. But life in Athens went on as usual, he said.