While tourism industry demonstrates “high scores” in tourists’ arrivals, the increasing number of illegal migrant incidents casts a heavy shadow with tourism sector professionals in Greece expressing their concern about the negative effect to the smooth operation of the upcoming tourist season. Last week only, some 200 migrants were rescued off the islet of Gavdos, southern Crete, while according to the Greek coast guard, the number of illegal migrants seeking a better life in Greece has tripled in the first three months of 2015. Some 6,493 migrants had arrived to Greece, last month, mostly to Lesvos, Chios, Leros and Samos. The government is unable to deal with such an increased flow, say tourism sector professionals. Greek daily Kathimerini notes former president of the Kos association of travel agencies and representative for travel group TUI, Stamatis Voukouvalidis, as saying that the government is sending out the wrong message to traffickers and migrants: that seeking refuge in Greece is OK. The island of Kos is expecting some 300,000 foreign visitors this summer, estimates TUI, citing at the same time that since the beginning of the year, the number of illegal migrants to Kos, Kalymnos and Leros already exceeds 3,900.