Tourism

According to a decision made by the Greek Ministry of Culture, the majority of Greek archaeological sites, museums and exhibitions will change their hours of operation between January 7 and February 28, 2019. The decision, which was published in the...

The island country of Cyprus appointed its first-ever Minister for Tourism on Wednesday in an effort to continue to grow tourism in the Meditteranean island nation. The new deputy minister is Savvas Perdios, a former hotel executive. He will be...

Greece foresees an even greater number of tourist arrivals from China in 2019, on top of the huge number of tourists already counted in the first eight months of this year, which represented a 22 percent increase over last...

The majority of tourists who visited Cyprus between June and September of 2018 said that they were "satisfied to a great extent" with their stay, according to a survey commissioned by the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO). The survey of visitors...

Greece's extraordinary growth in tourist arrivals over the last years is likely to level off in 2019, the President of the Association of Greek Tourist Enterprises (SETE) Yiannis Retsos warned on Friday. He announced that in 2018, Greece attracted about 33...

The emergence of Athens as one of the most popular "city-break" destinations in Europe during the last few years has caused a substantial increase in the city’s hotel room rates. According to a monthly report published by the Greek Tourism Confederation Institute...

Greece received the ''Best Heritage Destinations in the World'' Award at India's Best Awards at the recent  "IBA 2018" ceremony in Mumbai. The readers of the Indian travel magazine Travel+Leisure India and South Asia declared Greece as the top destination...

It's finally here -- your vacation in Athens has begun! But how can you be sure that you are getting the most out of your trip? You need to have information at your fingertips as you are out and...

The First Greek-Serbian Tourism Forum to increase the growth of tourism and develop specialty tourism between the two countries throughout the year was held in Thessaloniki on Friday. A total of 97 tourist agencies and organizations attended from Serbia and 135 from...

According to data derived from Russia's Vestnik ATOP Association of Tour Operators, which works closely with Greece’s Tourism Organization in Moscow, Russian tourists who visited Greece between January and September 2018 preferred visiting Athens and its riviera, as well...