COVID-19

Air Canada has resumed its direct flights from Canada to Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Airport, making it the first North American airline to resume service to Greece after the restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic. Canada's Ambassador to Athens Mark Allen...

Greek health authorities announced on Thursday that the first 250 Covid-19 tests to tourists arriving on Wednesday, the first day the country opened to mass tourism, proved all negative. The tests were conducted at the international airport of Heraklion, Crete....

Greece's hotel owners are outraged following a ministerial decision obligating them and their establishments to create special "Covid-19 rooms" to house infected patients. The decision came just less than a week before the country was scheduled to open up to...

International travel to Greece from the United States during the Covid-19 era may sound daunting, but it's worth the trouble.

Greek health authorities announced on Monday that twenty-one Covid-19 cases were detected among 9,349 airline passengers from abroad between June 15, when the country opened to tourism, and June 21. Over the first week, more than 120 flights have arrived...

Elementary schools have now closed their doors in Paramythia, Epirus after health authorities there recorded an increase in the number of of confirmed coronavirus infections over the weekend. A team from the National Health Organization was sent on Monday to...

TUI, the largest travel operator in the United Kingdom, has announced the resumption of flights between three British airports and eight tourist destinations in Greece and Spain beginning on July 11. The news is understood to suggest that travel...

About 9.6 million tourists arrived to Greece by car in 2019, amounting to 30.6 percent of total arrivals, says a study of the Institute of the Hellenic Tourism Enterprises  Association (INSETE) published on Thursday. The study entitled "Road tourism in...

Greek civil protection authorities have imposed a seven-day-long complete lockdown on the town of Echinos in northeastern Greece after a spike in coronavirus cases and deaths over the past week. Residents of the town in the province of Xanthi are...

Greek health authorities are on high alert once again after 11 new cases of Covid-19 appeared in the Echinos community in the Xanthi Prefecture, an area in which the General Secretariat for Citizen Protection imposed a curfew and restrictions on...