Tourism industry, one of the most dynamic industries worldwide is also one of the most vulnerable to crisis and disaster. This is mainly due to the fact that tourism is closely related and influenced by many external factors such as exchange rates, the political and economic environment, climate, and weather conditions. Tourism success is directly…
When Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team member Ismail had to leave his home country, Eritrea, he faced a dangerous journey to reach safety, crossing multiple countries and the Mediterranean Sea. In the months that followed, he faced detention, sickness, violence, and kidnapping, and saw many people who did not make it. Now he…
Yusra Mardini has still not fully recovered from her ordeal on the crossing from Turkey to Greece nine years ago in a boat packed with asylum seekers. ‘I have worked a lot with myself in order to deal with and navigate through everything that has happened to me and how it has impacted not just…
Paul Apostolidis, with roots from Lesvos, in his article in the New Lines Magazine describes how his recent ancestors arrived in America and draws parallels with the struggles of the so-called irregular immigrants and attitudes towards them. He also discusses the differences and how skin colour has facilitated the assimilation of Greek immigrants in contrast…