Tourism

  Jomaqua is only 103 kilometers from Thessaloniki but it is an American Indian village. It is near Elatochori in the prefecture of Pieria in northern Greece but once there, you can live as an American Indian for a few hours,...

The strong reaction of Greek tourism industry professionals caused the scenarios that leaked lately regarding a possible rise in the VAT rate for hotels, from the current 6.5% to 13%. Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) chief Andreas Andreadis characterized such...

Visitors and residents of the Greek island of Amorgos have the chance to visit one of the most melancholic but also beautiful beaches in Greece. The famous Olympia shipwreck lies in the southwestern coast of the Greek island, near Kalotaritissa beach. The...

Tax evasion from the tourism industry will cost Greece 1.5 billion euros in lost revenue in 2014, said the President of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels (CHC), Giorgos Tsakiris. According to iefimerida.gr, Tsakiris made the blunt statement during an international tourism forum...

A delegation aiming to boost arrivals from Greece to Beijing arrived in Athens to present Chinese culture to Greeks and showcase Beijing’s beauty, November 21. Fotis Provatas, Athens City Council President, and Yu Depin, Deputy Director of Beijing Municipal Commission...

Aegean Airlines, Greece's main air carrier, announced on Tuesday that it will add 16 new destinations in 10 countries this coming summer. After the new additions, Aegean Airlines will be reaching a total of 134 destinations, 34 in Greece and...

Grace Hotels recently announced the official opening of its hotel in Panama City, Grace Panama. Occupying the ground floor and six upper floors of the new, yet already iconic, 'Twist Tower' in the Obarrio District, Grace Panama is a...

In its 30th year, Philoxenia, Greece's annual fair on tourism, aims for the development of strategies and business alliances among tourism professionals. The fair will run from November 13 to 16 2014 at the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center, located...

“Tourists in Greece will become extinct, as the country will become too hot -- not in the next summer or the summer after, but in a few decades,” Frankfurter Rundschau reports. A group of experts have studied the effects...

Vehicle sales in Greece continued to rise last month, as new vehicle registrations increased by 33.7 percent compared to October 2013, showing a shy hint of economic recovery, a Kathimerini report says. Following the impressive increase in tourist arrivals, coach...

October’s statistical data have forced the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) to once again revise this year’s predictions regarding tourist arrivals. According to SETE, the number of international arrivals is expected to reach 20.5 million, a significant increase compared...

The Greek Ministry of Tourism has been forced to re-edit a tourism video unveiled in London this week because it contained footage of the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin under Hitler. The clip depicting the torch lighting ceremony at the...

“Wherever you turn... gods, myths, and heroes. A story about Greece.” This is the introduction to the new advertizement from the national Tourism Organization, titled “Gods, Myths, Heroes,” released by the Ministry of Culture to promote its communication campaign...

Coastal shipping in Greece is in danger as companies face serious financial problems in recent years, according to a survey by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) presented on Tuesday in Piraeus. According to Kathimerini daily, the survey...

Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni, after the opening of the Greek pavilion at the international tourism exhibition "World Travel Market 2014," expressed her belief that tourism arrivals in Greece will increase further in 2015 and that the country will successfully...