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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Helena Smith in Athens and Rachel Hall

Greece launches ‘free’ holidays for tourists who fled 2023 Rhodes wildfires

Blackened vegetation on beach and three people in water
A few holidaymakers return to the sea near Gennadi village, Rhodes, in July 2023 after the devastating wildfires. Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

It has required new legislation and navigation of copious red tape but nine months after wildfires devastated Rhodes, Greece has launched the first “free” holidays for thousands of tourists forced to flee the island.

In a decision tourism officials call a world first, up to 25,000 affected holidaymakers will, as of this week, be eligible for compensation.

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