One of the sectors that has been transformed more than perhaps any other in recent decades is tourism. This is clearly evident in the numbers of foreign visitors, the changing behavior of Greeks, and the qualitative features of tourism infrastructure. Images of the "good old Greek summer," that "time when dreams are made," as Elytis wrote, now seem faint and distant. That era of long vacations, initially on some island or mainland destination and then at ancestral homes in the countryside, is gone for good. Even this nostalgic memory, however, reflects subjective experiences that weren't available to everyone even back then - but certainly to many more people than today, where for a large part of society, a short stay in their hometown (for those who still have one outside urban centers) is now the only available escape. Of course, it's also the patina of time that makes everything from the past seem more charming, smoothing out the...