Tourism

Four cruise ships carrying 8,733 tourists and 3,416 crew members docked at the port of Katakolo, Greece. The tourists visited the archaeological site of Ancient Olympia while some of them decided to have a swim taking advantage of the high...

You don't need a huge travel budget to island hop in Greece. In fact, you will find that there are many economical ways that you can plan out your Grecian holiday to include visiting many islands. Let's take a...

The cruise ship Majestic Princess of Princess Cruises arrived in Piraeus Port on Sunday to start one of a total of eight cruises this year based on Piraeus. The new ship has a 2017 construction date and cost 600 million...

While visiting Athens on Monday, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that Beijing is setting a medium-term target for a tenfold rise in Chinese visitors to Greece for the near-future. "...Although every year there are more Chinese tourists in...

Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura met with the chairman, the executive director and a delegation of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) that visited Greece. The minister referred in detail to the development course of Greek tourism sector and the...

The number of inbound visitors in Greece grew 2.6 pct in the first two months of 2017 totaling 444,000 tourists, compared with the same period last year, although travel receipts fell 2.7 pct over the same period to 310...

Athens recorded a 14 percent increase in tourist arrivals in the first three months of 2017 compared with the same period last year, according to data presented on Thursday by city mayor George Kaminis and Aegean Airlines Vice President...

Two new five-star hotels are to be built in over 100 acres of land on Rhodes, adding 720 luxury beds to the island's tourist market. According to a Kathimerini newspaper report, the first hotel investment will be realized by the...

Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air recorded a 5 percent increase in passenger traffic in the first quarter of 2017 reaching 2.1 million passengers, the company said on Wednesday. Aegean said the increase is attributed entirely to the international network with...

The amount of visitors Greece is expecting from the US in the 2017 holiday season is expected to reach over 900,000, according to the president of the Hellenic American Chamber of Tourism (HACT), George Trivizas. The U.S. market is an...

OrangeLand Sparta is an initiative based on the promotion of orange with the view to enhancing tourism in Laconia, a region in the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. "The orange is a product-symbol of Laconia," the founder of Orangeland...

A luxury shopping mall is to open on famous Psarrou beach on Mykonos, catering to the rich visitors of the cosmopolitan island. The shopping center will be called Nammos Mall and is expected to change the character of the area....

Bookings from Germany and the United Kingdom for package holidays in Greece and other Mediterranean countries rose sharply in early 2017, according to a GFK survey unveiled. This is a strong indicator for total tourist arrivals in the summer,...

Travel receipts in 2016 totaled 13.207 billion euros, or 6.5 pct lower than the previous year, in spite of 7.5 pct increase in tourist arrivals, according to a Bank of Greece report on the travel services' balance in 2016. The...

According to data from the international research firm GfK, the first couple of months for 2017 have seen a considerable increase in holiday bookings for Germans coming to visit Greece and Cyprus. The data shows that the bookings from Germans for Cyprus...