GREECE is moving steadily closer to leaving the euro, it seems. The country’s financial woes should, on the face of it, be good news for the places with which it competes for tourists. Last week, the British government advised travellers to stock up with all the cash they might need before travelling to Greece. Pictures of long queues outside cashpoints and worries about the reliability of hospitals, airports and the like are, no doubt, making visitors consider alternatives such as Spain and Italy.
Indeed, competitors could reap a double benefit from the trouble on the euro zone's south-east tip. Not only will tourists re-route from the Aegean to the Mediterranean, but the crisis has helped push the value of the euro down, meaning that such places are also more attractive to holidaymakers from outside the euro zone.