Greek resorts consider out-of-town ghettos for rowdy tourists
Greek authorities are considering out-of-town tourist zones for rowdy British holidaymakers after the murder of 19-year old Tyrell Matthews-Burton in Crete last week.
The idea to segregate young holidaymakers most likely to cause trouble from other visitors is one measure that will be discussed when the mayors of resorts in Zakynthos, Crete, Corfu, Rhodes and Kos meet in Athens in October, said The Guardian.
The newspaper said senior officials from Greece’s tourism ministry, public order ministry and the British embassy are expected to attend, but it did not say how the tourist zones would operate and how resorts planned to keep young visitors from entering towns.
The Greek National Tourism Organisation’s London office said the idea to create tourist ghettos was "completely ridiculous".
The proposal appears to have been put forward by Zacharias Doxastakis, mayor of Malia where Matthews-Burton was stabbed to death in a brawl with other British holidaymakers.
He told The Guardian the resort was considering setting up special zones outside for rowdy visitors "and locals who want to host them".
Another Briton, Myles Litchmore-Dunbar, 19, an economics student from London, appeared before an investigating magistrate in Crete on Monday and was ordered to be detained pending trial.
He denies charges of premeditated murder and possession of a weapon, claiming blood stains on his clothes were the result of the victim falling on him as he was pulled from the crowd.
Two other British teenagers charged with inciting the murder have given testimony in Heraklion, the island’s capital.
By Linsey McNeill, TravelMole UK
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