Tourism

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...

The house of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in Thessaloniki reopens to the public, exhibiting personal belongings and household objects. The museum had received criticism that there were no personal belongings of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on...

The strength of the tourism sector in Greece is the result of a robust tourism policy, of the implementation of competitive measures and of the capacity of the private sector to adjust to a fast changing market, according to...

  According to figures by the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry, 631,344 Greeks have visited Turkey so far this year, showing the largest growth rate among European visitors (24 percent). At the same time, a record high number of Turkish...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVptrXbFM-Y What you get at "Melitini" is Greek products only! A former banker, Pantelis Hadjiconstantis, and his childhood friend Takis Drosos, left behind their lives in Athens and moved to Santorini to open the first traditional cafe that serves only Greek...

TBEX (Travel Blog Exchange European Conference) has currently taken hold of Athens, Greece. TBEX is the world's largest and most popular annual meeting of travel bloggers and professionals. The event includes numerous meetings, seminars and presentations featuring renowned tourism experts from around...

The annual TBEX Europe conference kicks off today in Athens. Running through October 25, the event will feature over 800 travel bloggers from around the world. The annual event brings together media representatives from travel organizations in 50 countries. This year's event takes place...

"We do not need another memorandum, as Greece is not just exiting it, but the country will also be absolutely safe in the post-memorandum era." With these words, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras described what he sees as the near...

The Greek tourism sector is probably the only sector that has successfully “resisted” the economic crisis of the past six years. Addressing the annual conference of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises in Athens, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vouched that...

The Australian Business Insider published a list of the Top 25 hotels in Europe, based on critiques and awards received from well-established travel websites, such as Travel + Leisure, Fodor and TripAdvisor. The list of the 25 best hotels in...

The TBEX Europe 2014, an international meeting of travel bloggers and tourist media authors, will take place in Athens, Greece on October 23-25. The event will see hundreds of participants from about 50 countries flock to the Greek capital. Athens will...

Summer is already gone, along with the high temperatures in the world-famous Greek islands, but young Chinese couples do not seem discouraged and have already started their fall and winter invasion to Santorini. The cosmopolitan island tops the vacation choice...

The Municipality of Kalambaka, resting on the northwestern edge of Greece's Thessalian Plain, will soon be known as the “Municipality of Meteora,” according to a decision recently taken by the Kalambaka city council. The decision for the name change was...

The number of visitors in Greek museums has increased 27.7% in June 2014, while revenues went up 30.1%. An increase of 20.2% was recorded in the number of visitors during the period from January to June and a 26.6% increase in revenue compared to the...