Vacationers Can Pay $5,500 for Unique Tour of Greece’s Acropolis

• Vacationers can take unique guided excursions of Greece’s Acropolis beginning in April 2024.
• An official from Greece’s Ministry of Tradition advised AP that one tour will value €5,000 ($5,500 USD). 
• This August, Greece restricted the variety of vacationers visiting the Acropolis per day to twenty,000. 

Greece will supply unique guided excursions of the famed Acropolis, however it’ll value 1000’s of {dollars}.

The Related Press reported on Saturday that Greece will begin providing the excursions on April 1, 2024. Per the outlet, the perk will enable a most of 4 tour teams with as much as 5 folks every. Every group will value €5,000, or roughly $5,500 USD.

The guided excursions can be scheduled outdoors common enterprise hours — from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. or 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. — to assist accommodate the demand from history-loving guests, in response to AP.

“We determined to implement (the measure) … as a result of there may be demand, folks have been asking for it,” Nikoletta Divari-Valako, head of the ministry’s cultural assets improvement, advised AP. “It will not hurt the archaeological web site, certainly it can contribute to its higher promotion, and the revenues can be reinvested in cultural tasks and monuments.”

Representatives from Greece’s Ministry of Tradition didn’t instantly reply to Enterprise Insider’s request for remark.

The Acropolis is a well-liked vacationer spot in Athens that pulls tens of 1000’s of tourists a day. Its citadel homes a number of historic artifacts and websites, together with the Parthenon. In August, Greek officers introduced that they might restrict the variety of vacationers to twenty,000 after overtourism hit Europe this summer time.

On the time, Greece’s tradition minister, Lina Mendoni, advised a neighborhood radio station that they applied the cap to forestall harm.

There have been plenty of incidents this 12 months of badly behaved vacationers in Europe, together with Greece. In September, a vacationer was arrested on the Acropolis after police mentioned he tried to steal items of historic marble.