Tourism

Sixteen representatives of leading travel agencies from Saudi Arabia which operate in Riad, visited Athens and met with the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Elena Kountoura, acting within the framework of promoting Greek Tourism and attracting visitors from the Saudi Arabian market. This...

Kokkari is a very beautiful village in Samos, with approximately 1,000 citizens. It is located 10 km northeast the town of Samos. Built in the beginning of the 19th century, its name is widely claimed to derive from a kind...

In a recent press release, the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association (AHA), announced that hotels in Athens have been seeing their occupancy numbers decrease since last fall until February 2016. According to AHA's data, there was a steady decrease throughout...

The Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), is expecting about 25 million tourists in Greece for 2016, and the earnings will augment to 15 billion euro instead of last year's 14.2 million, according to an interview to Bloomberg, by the president...

Aegean Airlines on Saturday announced the cancellation of all scheduled flights to and from Brussels until March 30 as the airport will remain closed. The airline said that it will instead carry out emergency flights to and from Lille...

Renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic will be at the ancient theatre of Epidaurus in Peloponnese, Greece, on March 28 to film scenes from a documentary on the life of legendary Greek-American soprano Maria Callas. Abramovic has been in Greece since...

Ionian Islands Regional Authority plans to spend around 200,000 euros to build the necessary infrastructure in ports and to approve licensing of four new water airports in Cephalonia, Ithaka, Lefkada and Meganisi, after approving licenses for Corfu and Paxi...

Following a study on Santorini island's capacity, local authorities will introduce a new system in order to manage the cruise arrivals during high tourist season which will allow a maximum number of 8,000 passengers per day. The cruise passenger rationing...

Taleb Rifai, United Nations World Tourism Organisation's secretary general, expressed his, as well as the organization's confidence regarding Greece's continuing growth in the tourism sector. In 2015, international tourist arrivals to Greece grew by seven percent reaching 23.6 million, while...

Google is now digitizing even more locations in Greece in order to help travelers who are planning their next trip have more choices and options, therefore helping to boost the Greek tourist industry. As of today, anyone can "access" Greece...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras raised the issue of the frequent violations of Greek airspace by Turkish fighter jets, stressing that the withdrawal of the "Casus Belli" state from Turkey towards Greece would be a timely act in light...

Google announced at a press conference on Wednesday that it supports the initiative "Grow Greek Tourism Online." In cooperation with the Economy, Development and Tourism Ministry and the National Greek Tourism Organisation as well as the Greek Tourism Enterprises Association,...

Greece's tourism - one of the country's most core financial resources - is facing a great threat, as massive cancellations in reservations are occurring in touristic destinations where there are refugee and migrant flows. According to an interview in Kathemerini,...

Vyroneia, a small village of the Serres prefecture in northern Greece, is steeped in history. Standing at the foot of the Belles mountain and near the rare biotope of Kerkini, Vyroneia went into the history map as the place...

With two million visitors arriving each year -- or nearly 10 percent of the total number of tourist arrivals for the whole country -- as well as frequent first-place rankings in surveys of favorite holiday destinations, the Greek island...