Tourism

While the messages for Greece’s tourism market are more than optimistic this year, domestic tourism appears to be the biggest loser. Greeks due to their bad financial situation won’t have the luxury to take a vacation this year and...

While the rest of the country is plagued by crisis, with unemployment rate at 27 percent, the island of Mykonos is rolling in the dough with an avalanche of tourists spending money like there's no tomorrow. According to the Guardian,...

You can't find a municipal swimming pool in Athens, where the heat beats down ferociously in the summer, but people who can afford luxury hotels have their choice of plenty of beautiful swimming pools, and two of them have...

According to official data released by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Ministry of Infrastructure Transport and Networks, tourism in Zakynthos rose by 12.5 percent in June 2013 in comparison with the same month last year. Zakynthos or Zante (from...

Slipping down the economic ladder to become one of the European Union's poorest country, Greece hopes to turn that on its head with a new tourism campaign touting just the opposite, if only for its heritage and history, its...

Patmos is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea which is mentioned in the Christian scriptural Book of Revelation. The book's introduction states that its author, John, was on Patmos when he was given (and recorded) a vision...

According to official data released by Rhodes (Diagoras) Airport, tourist movement on the island increased significantly in June, while for the first time Russians topped the list of arrivals leaving behind the British and German, who used to come...

According to e turbonews, Turkish tourists are flooding the Greek islands traveling by cruise ships, since Greece this year is one of the countries with the lowest prices due to the crisis. Some 50,000 tourists from Turkey are expected to...

Tourism Minister, Olga Kefalogiannis, during her speech on online tv of AMNA, said the reduction of VAT, "will be the best way to have a competitive product." "We have nothing new on the VAT reduction in food. This is one...

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, one of the most famous couples of Hollywood chose Greece again this year to spend their holidays. Since June 27, they have been on Kos, a Greek island in the  Dodecanese complex, next to...

Writer Elisabeth Herschbach takes us on a journey around Peloponnese, the large underexpored peninsula that forms the southernmost part of mainland Greece, linked by a four-mile isthmus at Corinth.

While Greece is hoping for a record tourist year and 17 million visitors, it didn't get off to a good start in the first quarter, with a decline of 1.5 percent in arrivals compared to the same period in...

Greek tax officials, after making 841 inspections of tourist destinations, through the Financial Crime Prosecution Unit (SDOE) have found Pelion, at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece, to be the region with the worst offenses. The checks took...

Imerovigli and Fira are highlighted as the two most popular destinations on perhaps the most popular of the Greek islands, Santorini, according to users of the well-known hotel price comparison web sire Trivago. The good news for Greece doesn't stop...

Travelers once again showed their preference for Greek destinations, as Greek islands occupied four of the five first places on the list of the 20 most popular holiday destinations in the Mediterranean region. According to a research carried out by...