Covid-19: another European tourism is born

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Tourists in Athens (Greece), before the Covid-19 health crisis ... AFP / ARIS MESSINIS

By: Juliette Rengeval Follow

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If the heavyweights in the sector are all experiencing a gloomy 2020, other, more isolated regions are doing well, despite the coronavirus crisis.

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Developed gradually in its current form from the 1960s and 1970s, tourism is today one of the pillars of the economy in

.

In 2019, the country received nearly 34 million visitors, three times the number of the country's inhabitants.

And nearly one in five jobs today is directly or indirectly linked to this tourism sector.

visited the islands of

, which derive a large part of their annual income from summer visitors.

In

too, the tourism sector is particularly affected, but the good news has come from Serbian visitors.

To enjoy the shores of the Mediterranean anyway, many of them have visited their Albanian neighbors.

The opportunity to challenge many stereotypes.

Head for

and its national road 2, for an “iconic” road trip, if we are to believe the travel guides!

In Italy, nights at the hotel to pamper caregivers.

is slowly recovering from the health crisis that hit it hard this winter.

To support the country's hospitals, which would again be in great demand in the event of a second wave, the government is planning an aid plan of nearly 34 billion euros which must still receive financial support from the European Union.

But, the hospitals are also and above all those who work there: doctors, nurses, hospital staff.

From north to south Italy, initiatives to take care of them and their well-being have multiplied.

went to

, in

, where the managers of a small hotel structure were at the service of caregivers.

News from Alexei Navalny

Russian opponent

continues his convalescence in a

hospital

.

His state of health is improving.

He announced on his Instagram account that he had been able to breathe on his own all day.

Before his poisoning, he had invested heavily in the campaign for the regional elections last Sunday (September 13, 2020) in

by pushing the tactic of "smart voting".

As his allies are generally not allowed to stand, it is a question of voting for the candidate best placed against that of power.

A tactic now promoted by his loyal lieutenant

.

His portrait with

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