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Economic and social history shows that crisis periods have the strongest impact on the largest social groups and their consequences on them last the longest. Sensitivity to a crisis is measured in specific economic indicators that the average person would describe with the simple ratio between air and money in his or her pocket. In other words, the emptiness in our pockets is something that we cannot but notice, feel and determine.

Therefore, we asked you about your perception of the economic crisis in Greece and about whether the country is emerging from it, "Do you believe that Greece is emerging from the crisis?"

Traditionally, we begin our poll analysis with the Bulgarian version of our website. The answers to the particular question are quite scattered and the vote of our readers is ambiguous. 33% believe that the emergence from the crisis is an election trickof Samaras. The next most popular option is in favour of the strong tourist season, accounting for 18% of the readers' vote. Only 3% less, or 15%, is the rate of the option claiming that all economic indicators and credit rating agencies show that Greece is emerging from the crisis. 13% of readers think the situation is improving, but only in favour of the economic elite whereas 11% believe that Greece’s reserves of natural fuels in its territorial waters will turn it into the new Dubai. Our readers rank last in popularity the option according to which, while Samaras & Co are in power, Greece will jump from one memorandum to another. It receives only 9% of the vote.

We see that the most popular and least popular options relate to topics that are directly associated with Prime Minister Samaras’ governing. In the middle are the options that show optimism about the emergence from the economic crisis. If we compare the optimistic and pessimistic responses, we will see that pessimism holds the lead, but the level of optimism among the Bulgarian audience of the website is high. It remains to guess whether our readers responded with irony or were optimistic when thinking of Greece as the next Dubai.

Similar is the situation with the votes in the English version of GRReporter.info. 32% of English-speaking readers again give preference to the election tricks by the Greek Prime Minister in relation to the emergence from the crisis. 22% see improvement in the situation but only among the economic elite. Next is the group of those readers who believe that the analysis and expectations of the rating agencies contain real economic indications that the economic crisis is close to an end. This option collects 14% of the readers vote. The last three options have very similar results, as follows: the expected strong holiday season and the future of Greece as Dubai collect 11%. The pessimistic future for the government of Samaras & Co is again at the bottom of the readers vote, with 10%.
 
At the end of our poll, however not in terms of importance but of difference, are the votes from the Greek version of our website. Assuming that people who do not live in Greece voted in the Bulgarian and English versions, for the Greek one we can conclude that the seriousness of the question has a direct impact on the replies.

No readers voted for the options stating that the economic indicators and the rating agencies believe that Greece is emerging from the crisis, and the bright future of Greece as the second Dubai. Each of the other options receives 25% of the votes: Samaras & Co and the improved situation, but only of the business elite, indicate rather pessimistic moods. Our Greek readers see hope for the emergence from the crisis in the traditionally strong sector of the economy, tourism. We can conclude that the difficulties of the economic crisis are expressed in 75% of responses whereas only 25% see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Our new poll relates to Greek tourism and what tourists find most attractive in Greece.