Tourism

Greece will host the world’s first underwater dance-visual performance “Drops of Breath”, at Cape Sounio, on September 25th through the 27th. The performance is an initiative of choreographers Sophie Bulbulyan and Apostolia Papadamaki in collaboration with Lia Haraki and a...

Only about 1,000 Turkish tourists out of an originally estimated 4,000 will visit the island of Lesvos on September 23rd to 27th, which marks the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, because of the situation caused by the arrival of...

The American travel website TripAdvisor announced the winners of its annual Traveler's Choice awards, on Tuesday, which are based on votes by its readers, and Greece placed amongst the best in many different categories. The well-known Greek island of Santorini was...

The arrival of Chinese tourists in Greece will increase by 20 percent, exceeding 120,000, according to estimates by hotel industry representatives. According to a Kathimerini newspaper report, Santorini is the destination of choice for the Chinese. The Cyclades island is...

The president of the Lesvos Hoteliers Association Pericles Antoniou sent a letter to interim Finance Minister Giorgos Chouliarakis and Tourism Minister Nikos Christodoulakis describing the damage caused to tourism because of the refugee influx. In his letter Antoniou stresses that...

The number of visitors in Greek museums across the country increased by 10.1% in May 2015 according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). The agency noted that there was a 9.3% increase in the number of visitors to archaeological sites...

Greece suffered a one billion euro tourism revenue shortfall this year due to continuous economic and political instability, and the refugee crisis, Hellenic Federation of Hoteliers Head Yiannis Retsos revealed. According to recent data the Association Of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) released,...

The largest sailing cruise ship in the world, the famous Club Med 2, has been travelling around the Aegean Sea, while on Friday it made a stop at the Chios port. This is the sister ship of Club Med 1,...

The City of Athens has extended invitations to eight well-known travel bloggers in Europe to experience and report on their own Athenian "Perfect Day" at the city's expense, over seven weeks in September and October. The bloggers have been asked...

The film 'Greek Tourism an Eternal Journey' has won three awards in three international tourist festivals, organized different cities around the world by the International Committee of Tourism Film Festivals (CIFFT). The Greek video, produced by the Greek National Tourism Organization (EOT)...

Conde Nast Traveler, a distinguished United States based magazine on tourism, revealed  that the Greek islands received the magazine's Readers Travel Award for the World's Best Islands for 2015. Despite capital controls and political instability in the country, the Greek islands reclaimed the...

The increased inflow of refugees and migrants has seriously affected tourism on Lesvos island and other neighboring Greek islands. Tourist agent Ilias Pikoulos said to ANA-MPA that six cruise ship operators with approximately 5,000 passengers on-board each ship was expected...

Capital controls, the July 5th referendum, the refugee influx and general political instability could not deter foreign tourists coming to Greece, breaking another record of arrivals. Last year, visitors to Greece exceeded 24 million, breaking a record of arrivals. This year...

The snap elections announced mid-August in Greece have caused great concern across the country. However, Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) president Andreas Andreadis believes that the country’s tourism sector will continue to grow if the election results in a...

Shipwrecks are constant reminders of terrible naval tragedies and the lost lives of sailors and passengers, but with the passage of time, the stranded shipwrecks, found in various coasts across the world, become unique sites and they are often visited by thousands...