It won’t be normal, but a New Normal, as Greece hopes international air travel will resume as lockdowns around the world aimed at preventing the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus are eased and that tourists will still come this summer.

Tourism makes up as much as 20 percent of Greece’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 185.06 billion euros ($200.3 billion) but fears were that revenues from visitors could fall 52-70 percent this year, ending a record run of years propping up a battered economy.

Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis has spoken about “specific new rules” as the world tries to adapt to the pandemic, said media reports about Greece’s plans to let hotels reopen with strict hygienic rules and social distancing requirements.

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He told the British newspaper The Guardian that, “If we are to think of the possibility of traveling this year it has to be under specific new rules. We have to have new rules for hotels, new rules for beaches, new rules for pools, new rules for breakfast buffets, new rules for tour buses”.

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