Tourism

The hotels of Rhodes are full in recent weeks and the estimations that this year will be the best tourism year ever for Rhodes are almost confirmed. According to the recently announced data, July was actually a particularly good month,...

While topless sunbathing can be found almost everywhere in Greece, true nude beaches are a little harder to find. Greece has an abundance of bare sand beaches, some much barer and better than others. Nude swimming, otherwise known as “skinny...

According to Tourism Minister Olga Kefaloyianni, this year is expected to be better than last in terms of both the number of visitors and revenues, while she assured that Greece is an "open and safe place" and Greeks are...

The yacht of late Apple founder Steve Jobs showed up in Hydra last weekend with locals wondering if his family would stay long in Greece and visit the Ionian Sea islands. Venus carried members of the Jobs family and other...

Three young German tourists, who were having their holidays at Hersonissos in the Greek island Crete, Greece, were reportedly beaten by a group of Cretans, another incident of violence on the island which has seen a spate of rapes...

The beautiful Greek island of Samos lies in the heart of the Central Aegean, 1,200 meters from the shore of Asia Minor. With its diversity, green, rocky mountains and fertile plains, Samos is ready to offer some pretty unforgettable...

The governor of the Region of Patras Apostolos Katsifaras held a meeting with the Ambassador of Austria in Greece Melita Schubert to discuss  co-operation between Western Greece and Austria. The Honorary consul of Austria in Patras Fanis Georgopoulos was also...

For the first time in four years the number of overnight stays in hotels in Thessaloniki, Greece, for the first semester in 2013 of Greeks and foreign tourists has increased. Russians are the biggest foreign visitors to Greece's second-largest city,...

The Region of Crete's advertising campaign, Incredible Crete 2013,  continues with new exciting spots. Millions of views open the road for Crete to become a natural movie studio. The tourist campaign began in May 2013 with the incredible hospitality and...

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung, a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published Gruppe in Zurich, reported in an article on Greek tourism dthat “Greek tourism alone is not enough to solve the problems” of the debt-crushed country. “Even though Greece receives more...

With Greece enjoying what looks to be a record tourist season, one of the most important sources is Russian visitors who are flocking to the country in droves.  The Consulate General of Greece in Moscow, Ioannis Plotas told the...

While 2012 was a disappointing year for tourism with people staying away in the face of protests, strikes and riots against austerity, the year 2013 - which could set a record of 17 million arrivals - began with a...

French President Francois Hollande and former Eurozone chief and current Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker have chosen the Ionian Greek island of Ithaca for their summer holidays, joining a long list of celebrities choosing to come to Greece during...

The well-known travel website TripAdvisor.com, based on the votes it collected by travelers who visited Greek beaches in 2013, presented the top 10 of the most beautiful  beaches in the country. Elafonisos, a small Greek island between the Peloponnese and...

The famous Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani has been cruising for the last few days the Greek islands on his luxury yacht Main, and since the morning of July 22 has been enjoying his holidays in Chania, Crete. Armani, who...