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Greece: Authorities to Clean Up Tourist Behavior at Coastal Resorts

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Authorities vowed to clean up the tourist scene in its seaside resorts after a 20-year-old Australian was beaten to death by bouncers at a Mykonos bar. Many coastal resorts have become notorious for drunken revelry by young foreigners, and Greece’s tourism minister said that much of the violence and indecency that results comes from profit-hungry bar owners serving drinks fortified with industrial alcohol. Equally at fault are youths looking for a vacation with no boundaries who fail to consider the consequences. The situation in some places has got to the point where locals now loathe their foreign visitors: last year the residents of Malia, Crete staged a march against British tourists who fly in on cheap holiday packages and go out of control on alcohol and drugs.