...unless Greece has evidence that it's normal tourist market is suffering, all this does is cut down on jobs and revenue.

Sometimes you want a cultural experience and sometime you just want to relax.

Japanese tourists. And read a lot about Japanese investment in Australia. I asked a shopkeeper if this meant a lot more money for Australians, restaurants, hotels, and shops - he said no.

He told me the Japanese would buy a small island or large property, build a resort on it, and then the Japanese would fly to Australia on Japan Airlines, spend their money in the Japanese resort, use Japanese travel agencies, etc. they mostly went to Japanese-owned restaurants. Taxes were paid, but Australian businesses did not benefit much from Japanese tourism.

Tsipras has a point. This stuff affects the people who voted for him.

...even in this country the big resorts don't want you spending money in the local economies, they want all your dollars spent through them. My industry has a convention once a year, alternating between Texas and Florida. The resort in Florida is all inclusive, restaurants, bars, salons, golf course. And it's isolated so you CAN'T walk anywhere else. If you leave their property it's a 20 minutes taxi ride to anywhere else.

I remember reading about this when Disney built DisneyWorld. They HATED all the independent (non-Disney) development that sprang up in Anahiem around Disneyland. When they were planning DisneyWorld they were determined not to let anybody else benefit from their presence.

Tsipras has a very good point.