Tourism

Best Value Destinations according to Lonely Planet Every year the Lonely Planet publishes a small book with the best travel destinations of the year. The material for 2014 is already set, and among the recommendations of Lonely Planet are the...

In the first eight months of 2013, Greek tourism finally broke the 2008 record of 8.67 billion from tourism revenues the 8.68 billion euro mark. Given that the total revenues for all of 2008 had amounted to 11.6 billion, the...

Zakynthos' Navagio Beach is one of the most beautiful beaches around the world, but the spot is also one of the favorite Base Jump spots on the planet. The beach is is an exposed cove, often referred to as 'Smugglers...

Greece is losing over one billion euros in government revenue due to illegal hotels, the president of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, Yiorgos Tsakiris, said during a press conference held on the occasion of the 67th General Assembly of...

In a press conference that the Greek  Tourism Development Minister, Olga Kefalogianni gave yesterday, while accompanied by the general secretary of Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) Panos Leivadas, it was made clear that the tourism promotion budget will be...

The Internet is the main weapon for the communication advance of Greece to the foreign markets, which just started in order to ensure the rise of the tourism movement in 2014. The first messages concerning these early advertising efforts...

Tui Travel boss Peter Long today met the Greek prime minister to discuss the growth plans by the group including a 10% rise in capacity for 2014. Europe’s largest travel group spends more than €500 million a year on purchasing...

According to estimates on Greek tourism, the number of arrivals in Greece are about 1,5 million, and the receipts of the visitors to the country will range in the ballpark of 800 million euros. As ekathimerini reports, the Association of...

A common declaration of tourism cooperation between Greece and Israel was signed on Oct 8, right after the meeting of the Greek minister of Tourism Olga Kegalogianni with her Israeli counterpart Uzi Landau in the framework of the Interministerial...

After the very good course of the Greek tourism in the period January to September, there were  ─in comparison with last year─ around 1 million more tourists who visited Greece by air. According to data released by the Association of...

Some 170 Italian tourism operators visited Crete with the aim of increasing visitors from their country to the popular island. The Italian tour operators represent more than 3,500 travel agencies and arrived in Heraklion to make their travel plan...

The arrivals of foreign tourists at the airports around Greece recorded an important increase, according to the first (temporary) data for September 2013 that were published by the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE). According to the data for the...

As basketblog.gr reports, On September 27, Michael Jordan visited Greece and more precisely Mykonos in total secrecy. In the photo above, you can see Jordan wandering around the small boutiques of the island. Of course, this is not the first...

The Greek islands are on the top of cheating women's preferences. In the crystal blue waters of the Greek seas they can satisfy their craziest sexual desires, stimulate their libido with spicy extramarital relations and escape from everyday life...

The spectacular cruise ship, Costa Pacifica, carries 3,800 tourists – It arrived from Istanbul on September 23 and ever since has caught the eyes of the residents of Thessaloniki... Costa Pacifica arrived at Thessaloniki port at 08.00 a.m. from Istanbul and...