Chinese Tourists

Residents in Crete, Greece, warmly welcomed 800 Chinese tourists who arrived at Heraklion port early on Friday morning, March 27, with the cruise ship Costa Atlantica. Several journalists, actors and writers were among the visitors. The regional unit of Crete and...

According to a recent presentation by China’s largest online search engine, Baidu, 3 million Chinese have searched about Greece over the last year, while the same number is expected to reach 7 million next year. Baidu has a total of...

Several state and private Chinese tourism organizations will meet with their Greek counterparts on Friday to discuss the cooperation on boosting tourism between the two countries, a capital.gr report says. The aim of the forum is to increase the bidirectional...

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 opening of Greece's largest outbound market in the world, that of China, created the conditions for the development of another market, that of tour guides who speak Chinese and can facilitate Chinese visitors during their stay in the country....

In the last few years, Greece is attracting an increasing number of tourists from emerging economies. Tourism industry officials claim that Brazilian, Korean, Filipino, Indian and Mexican visitors often spend more money than European tourists. Santorini Mayor Anastasios-Nikolaos Zorzos said that, in the...

During the last few years, Greek tourism and especially Greece's capital, Athens are gaining ground on the international tourism market. According to MasterCard figures, visitors in Athens are expected to spend a total of 1.4 billion euros, an increase of 27% compared to 2013. The rise in the number...

Eighteen Chinese couples will tie the knot on the idyllic Greek island of Crete on Friday, April 25. Preparations are already underway for the big day at the 'Koules' fortress in Chania, where the wedding rehearsal took place couple of days ago. According to the wedding...

The Greek National Tourism Organization (EOT) is planning honeymoon offers in order to increase the flow of Chinese tourists in Greece. Five trips to Greece with all expenses covered were won during a special showing of the Chinese movie entitled...