Akamas villages draw mass tourist footfall for the first time

Tourists are entering Akamas peninsula villages in numbers not seen before in the area’s history, with local officials crediting a presidential plan to link development and beautification projects across the peninsula’s communities into a single visitor experience.

“For the first time in the history of the peninsula, since last month we are seeing tourists coming into the communities in large numbers — not just passing through on the way to the beaches and natural monuments of Akamas,” local...