Daylight robbery certainly doesn’t encourage tourism

Sir,
I have read much in your paper recently about the dwindling number of tourists visiting your beautiful island and many reasons have been put forward as to why this is happening.

May I give you one very strong reason for tourists being driven away.

My daughter, her husband and two daughters aged three and four, spent two weeks at the Atlantica Oasis hotel in Limassol in October this year. During their stay, her youngest daughter developed a fever.

She was given the name of a doctor by the tour representative, who duly came to the hotel, examined her and told my daughter to continue with the medicine she had already been giving her and if she was not better in three or four days to contact him again.

The doctor then charged my daughter €150.

This can only be described as daylight robbery and while instances like this occur, it is not surprising that more tourists will not take their holidays in Cyprus.

Brian Green,
Ross-on-Wye, UK

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