Greece may soon charge visitors to enter this highly popular island


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A filepic of tourists viewing Santorini’s famed sunset. Overtourism has become a huge problem in some of Greece’s most famous islands. — Reuters

Picture the scene. Chapels with domed roofs and buildings with whitewashed walls that seem to roll down a slope frozen in time, as the sun glistens on the water of the infinity pools in which any traveller might dream to take a dip.

It sounds idyllic.

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