The list of Russian tour operators going bankrupt keeps pilling up, with the latest entry, Versa operator, based in St. Petersburg, to raising their number to 14. Versa represents nearly 2,000 clients in Greece at the moment. Earlier this year, major tour operators such as Solvex and Southern Cross have gone bankrupt, alarming Greece over the impact on tourism and revenues, when it has been estimated that the closure of the tour operators have resulted in 15 million euros damages in the tourist sector.
Christos Kalloniatis (Professor of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean), Iris Kritikou (Archaeologist-Historian of Art), Konstantinos Maniatopoulos (Director of the Stratis Eleftheriadis-Tériade Museum – Library, Visual Artist-Historian of Art), Irine Vasilopoulou