As the tourism season approaches, restaurant and hotel owners in greece are having a hard time finding employees to work, and operators in Greece cite flexible working conditions as the reason for this.It is estimated that there is a shortage of 80 thousand workers in the food and hotel sector, which accounts for 25 percent of the country's economy, in Greece, where those who prefer office jobs where they can work 9-5, weekend or extra shifts are in the majority.To solve the problem, the authorities, partly under pressure from local authorities, plan to legalize the status of around 30,000 undocumented migrants in the country, while bilateral agreements have also been reached with third world countries such as Egypt, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Georgia, India and Moldova on the flow of workers.As of 2024, Greece has a total capacity of 447,363 rooms and 894,854 beds in 10,104 hotels operating across the country.It was announced that Greece, which broke a record with a total of 35 million tourists, earned approximately 22 billion euros from tourism in 2024. The contribution of Turkish tourists, who entered the country last year with a total number of 1.5 million, to the Greek economy exceeded 810 million Euros.
