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Tourist Arrivals in Greece Take Off

Greece's busiest-ever tourist season continues to get better with news that there was a 9.28 percent rise in air arrivals, mirroring that of arrivals via ship. Some 6,887,532 people have flown into Greece so far this season with the...

Tourists Keep Pouring Into Greece

Greece's record-breaking tourist season got a big bump in June when the first hordes of visitors started coming in droves in and the trend is continuing, officials said. According to preliminary aggregated data for July released today by the K,...

Best Tourism Year Ever For Rhodes

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,...

Rare Onassis Photos Found on Skorpios

In the closets of the furniture on the private island Skorpios, located in the Ionian Sea that was owned by the late tycoon Aristotle Onassis and was recently sold to the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, 10 rare photographs were...

Fires Rip Rhodes, Crete and Serifos

For a second day on July 28, fire services on the islands of Rhodes, Crete and Serifos were battling big fires during the height of the summer tourist season. In Rhodes, the fire was burning out of control and moving...

Despite Tourist Killing, UK Ambassador Says Greece Safe

The United Kingdom's Ambassador to Greece, John Kittmer, visited Malia, Crete and met with the family of Tyrell Matthews Burton, the young British man who was murdered on Crete and said that despite the tragedy, “Greece is a hospitable,...

Protest Against Olympic Air Route Cuts

Olympic Air’s decision to stop the connection between three main airports of Greece in Thessaloniki, Iraklio on Crete, and to Rhodes beginning Oct. 13 has met with resistance from representatives of local administration, local chambers of commerce who say...

SDOE Finds Resort Areas Tax Cheats

Inspections carried out by Greece's Financial Crime Squad in tourist areas has found that resorts aren't handing out receipts as required and those in Evia are ducking 100 percent of their tax obligations. That comes as the Value Added Tax...

Olympic Air Stop Flights to Heraklion, Thessaloniki, Rhodes

Olympic Air will connect Athens with Thessaloniki and Heraklion only until 13 October, 2013, as the Greek regional airline, formed from the privatization of the former national carrier Olympic Airlines will soon announce the suspension of these flights. In parallel,...

TripAdvisor's Top 10 Greek Beaches

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...