'There's a wildfire outside my balcony' - climate chaos hits tourism in Greece

On a family holiday to the Greek island of Corfu, Irish Times reporter Ronan McGreevy got an unexpected front row seat to one of the big stories of the summer: catastrophic wildfires, to which experts say climate change is a major contributing factor. On Corfu and Rhodes, thousands of tourists have been forced to evacuate. Will the increased frequency and intensity of such events force a rethink of Mediterranean tourism? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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