I completely agree that the problem is the accommodation (and the surroundings). If you arrive to find a comfortable, clean room with a decent bed, decent bathroom and sweet-smelling loo and on top of that are in a quiet location surrounded by flowers and fruit trees, I guess you will be happy. If, conversely, you arrive to find a thin mattress, threadbare sheets, a dodgy shower and smelly loo, you probably won't come back! I used to dread visiting Corfu in the early 1970s as it was so smelly in the height of summer, no air-con so stonkingly hot and the beds were like concrete blocks. I think things have now vastly improved, but as I get older my comforts become more and more important.
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Doing our bit Tricia, having my 50th in Corfu, lots of family and friends flying to Corfu all staying in the local Hotel, where the party will be held.
For some of them it will be the first time, others are seasoned visitors.
Everybody welcome
Can I ask when will that be, Tully (just in case)?
Dennis
Hi Dennis, October 11th,
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Still stonkingly hot in summer but not Corfu's fault. Beds after 30 or 40 years still generally thin and hard. That's not the real problem though at present. There is so much more to offer the traveller world wide now than years ago and just one is the choice of really low cost flights to destinations much nearer than Greece. I still prefer Greece with "warts and all " and can still afford it (why..71 and still running a small business to keep up a decent standard of living). However, many are not in the same position. Remember about a year after Greece had joined the Euro and the receptionist at my hotel said things were getting so much worse for the locals. She added, however Corfu is suffering because it was the the first popular place to holiday in Greece (specially for Brits due to it's historical connections). Corfu then sat back on it's laurels and later destinations in Greece and elsewhere came along and upgraded facilities. Bit like our home trade in the past. On top of that of course, we have the current economic climate. Oh, and don't believe everything you read in the papers about the massive increase in bookings for Turkey.
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I don't think it's altogether fair to say that "Corfu sat back on it's laurels". The tour companies generally paid the owners so little for the accommodation that most couldn't afford to upgrade. Even if they did manage to upgrade, they still didn't get more money from the TO's, so were then out of pocket. Moyra
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This is such a complicated question, it would appear that there is no single reason for the decline in tourism
in Corfu, or anywhere else I would surmize.
I was just speaking to an Athenian working in the entertainment business in Athens, he has decided to close down at the end of May, (this is when the last of his prebooked partys will have finished, and he can tell his 350 staff they no longer have a job. When you concider that the business has been in operation for over 40years, successfully meeting a need, that is no longer there, its particularly sad.
Bob.
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"This is such a complicated question, it would appear that there is no single reason for the decline in tourism
in Corfu, or anywhere else I would surmize."
I think that's very true. I also believe that these things are very often cyclical. Places can be in favour as against somewhere else for a number of reasons but eventually that popularity declines. Talking to a number of people who have holidayed regularly in Turkey for years they are bemoaning its rise in prices.
I firmly believe that Corfu will always be a popular destination and with some hard work and uplifting of standards will soon attract back the people who may have temporarily gone elsewhere.
David
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Reading this topics post, it appears to be a mixture of things, and not unique to Corfu, but maybe they were one of the first to feel the pinch. BUT I can give you the answer why we will be going back as soon as we can, because Alan on way to recovery and the minute we can get on a plane, there is no other place we want to go, except to our beloved Corfu. SIMPLES lol Ann xxxx
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SC. "Where exactly are you referring to there? If SC stands for south Corfu there are probably as high a standard of accommodation there as anywhere else on the island".
I meant Self Catering. And some SC is poor by any standards in my experience. For instance, a number of years ago, over a period, we used several SC packages to get to Corfu. Our final destination was the mainland but it was cheaper at the time to purchase Corfu SC and stay overnight. The accommodation was so grim that 4 out of 5 couples on our flight and living in our small ('holiday') apartment block, had gone AWOL on our return.
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This is such a complicated question, it would appear that there is no single reason for the decline in tourism
in Corfu, or anywhere else I would surmize.
To go back to my original question, why then are bookings to Turkey this year are up 50%?
Going on some answers given here, it's certainly not because it's cheaper because obviously, it isn't!
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