Tourism

According to a survey realized by the Hotels.com website based on a worldwide sample of 27,000 travelers, Greece ranks among the world’s top 10 most hospitable tourism destinations. As daily Kathimerini reports, according to the website, Greece is placed alongside...

The largest travel agency in the world, TUI Travel, analyzed the data collected from 13 countries which export tourism in Europe and compared their similarities and differences regarding summer holiday reservations. The results showed that the top holiday destinations for...

As Greek Travel Pages (GTP) website reports, next week, a workshop on spa tourism will take place in Athens. The workshop will involve discussions on the contribution of spa tourism in Greece and ways to attract investments in this...

The archaeological site of Knossos remained closed on September 18, due to the museum guards' strike, who are protesting against the dismissals of 250 employees from the Ministry of Culture. At this time of the year, the Palace and the...

During his visit to Athens, Peter Long stated that by next year TUI Tour Operators will increase the number of visitors to Greece by 300,000, in this way bringing the total number to more than two million tourists. Speaking to...

The President of the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Victoria Bruce Atkinson and the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Ken Smith expressed their interest in investments in Greece to Tourism Minister Olga Kefalyianni in a meeting on Sept....

About 55,000 more foreign tourists arrived on the Greek island of Zakynthos during the first eight months of the year, compared to the same period of 2012, according to data from the Civil Aviation Authority. With an average increase of...

A billion euros party has been set on the Greek islands. The owners of luxurious villas rent their property without declaring anything to tax authorities. The Financial Crime Unit has detected over the last two years 500 cases of owners...

There are many interesting things in the city of Thessaloniki to attract tourists from India, as Indians are particularly attracted by the personality of Alexander the Great and the wider Greek history, but until recently they did not include...

GNTO’s presence in the Guangdong International Tourism Industry EXPO, which was held on August 30 and lasted until September 1, 2013, in Guangzhou, China, was unexpectedly successful. In Guangzhou, GNTO won the best booth design award as well as the...

Stars of Hollywood and famous names of the fashion world visited Greece during summer 2013 for their holidays and shared their impressions with their fans. The words Greek island have entered the celebrities’ vocabulary, while Greece has become a...

The novel hotel-ranking system on the travel website Feels Like Home aims at attracting Chinese visitors to have their holidays in Greece, according to an article published in the South China Morning Post print edition, under the title Website...

Prespa is the name of two freshwater lakes in southeast Europe, shared by Albania, Greece and FYROM. They are the highest tectonic lakes in the Balkans, standing at an altitude of 853 m (2,798 ft). The Great Prespa Lake, also...

September is the month that many Europeans choose for their holidays mainly because of the lower prices. The prices in Greece present an important decrease of 15 percent compared to August, while at the same moment there is a...

The ports around Greece are attracting  more and more tourists as Greece ranked third among the cruise destinations in Europe after Spain and Italy. The Greek ports and mainly Piraeus attract more and more visitors after the lifting of...