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Brits impacted by Rhodes wildfires to be offered 'free week-long holidays'

Destinations
Will Payne
2 August 2023

Holidaymakers whose breaks to Rhodes were disrupted by recent wildfires could be eligible for a free week-long holiday to the Greek island, according to reports in the national press.

Rhodes Greece map iStock-529387215 (Credit: iStock)

Around 20,000 tourists were evacuated from Rhodes last July (Credit: iStock)

After wildfires spread across large parts of the south of the island, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek prime minister, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain the country’s government will offer free one-week breaks to the island next spring or autumn to those whose holidays were cut short.