One of Greece’s top resorts, Costa Navarino in extreme southwest Greece, this week announced that it will commence its 2021 holiday season on May 19, and specifically with the opening of The Westin Resort hotel, while other five-star units at the verdant site to open in subsequent days.
Costa Navarino, near the city of Kalamata, in the southern Peloponnese, ranks as among Greece’s pre-eminent resorts, with an emphasis on sports activity and leisure vacations.
Like all tourism-related businesses in the country, the late start of the 2021 season is due to Covid 19 pandemic-related measures and restrictions, although the country has presented a clear-cut framework for tourist arrivals (vaccination certificates or recent negative results from testing), while ushering in mandatory reporting of self-test results by employees in the F&B and hospitality sectors, whereas vaccinations of the general population are nearing the three-million mark – out of a local population of 11 million.
