Multi-million dollar business with tourists in Santorini: if you want a picture like that, you have to pay 2,000 francs

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Perfect styling, a dreamy background, smile please: Knips. The result: an image of a beautiful woman who overshadows the landscape on the Greek island of Santorini with her meter-long silk dress fluttering in the wind. However, it is not a professional model posing here, but a tourist. The special thing about such a shoot: the pompous holiday photos cost several thousand francs.

Behind the exclusive photo shoots is the company “Santorini Flying Dresses”, as “20 minutes” writes. If you want to have such a photo in your collection, you can choose from different packages – starting at 300 francs. The cheapest photo shoot includes a professional photo team, but the dress is not included. So if you don’t happen to have a huge satin dress hanging in your closet, you’re going to have to dig deeper into your pockets for better or worse.

The most expensive offer? In the “Santorini Exclusive Package” you will be picked up, you have three hours to take the perfect snapshot and you can pose in three different garments. Refreshing drinks are also provided. And that for a price of 2000 francs.

The lucrative trade is not only a hype on the Greek islands: according to “Bloomberg”, it is an international multimillion-dollar business. Almost every scenic beach town offers some form of tourist shoot.

Dubai, Bali, Egypt – and Switzerland

Imaginative photo shoots are also booming in holiday destinations like Dubai and Bali. Whether with a camel in the desert, in front of the skyline or on a swing: the photographers know how to capture the tourists perfectly.

And the prices are not getting any cheaper: in Bali the luxury holiday photo costs 430 francs, in Dubai the price is between 285 and 600 francs. The same applies to holiday destinations such as Egypt or Jamaica. “We’ve had people just come in for their photo shoot,” says Christian Hunter, founder of Flying Dress Photo Service Jamaica. “They come for three days, then they go again.”

In fact, there are also tourist photo shoots in Switzerland: for Zurich, for example, you can book a city discovery tour through Airbnb with professional photo shoots – but without a meter-long silk dress. The cheapest offer is 58 francs per person, the most expensive 260 francs. (lia)

Source: Blick