Tourism

Two new five-star hotels are to be built in over 100 acres of land on Rhodes, adding 720 luxury beds to the island's tourist market. According to a Kathimerini newspaper report, the first hotel investment will be realized by the...

Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air recorded a 5 percent increase in passenger traffic in the first quarter of 2017 reaching 2.1 million passengers, the company said on Wednesday. Aegean said the increase is attributed entirely to the international network with...

The amount of visitors Greece is expecting from the US in the 2017 holiday season is expected to reach over 900,000, according to the president of the Hellenic American Chamber of Tourism (HACT), George Trivizas. The U.S. market is an...

The Macedonia International Airport-based Ellinair has announced that it will be offering Georgian travelers summer flights along the Heraklion-Tbilisi-Heraklion route. The flights will be performed once a week on Thursdays from June 15 to September 14, the low-case Greek airline...

Travel receipts in 2016 totaled 13.207 billion euros, or 6.5 pct lower than the previous year, in spite of 7.5 pct increase in tourist arrivals, according to a Bank of Greece report on the travel services' balance in 2016. The...

According to data from the international research firm GfK, the first couple of months for 2017 have seen a considerable increase in holiday bookings for Germans coming to visit Greece and Cyprus. The data shows that the bookings from Germans for Cyprus...

Greeks are staying in Greece this Easter holiday, according to a Trivago survey that shows that the number one destination for Greeks in the island of Corfu. Previously, the top destinations for Greeks during the Easter holiday were mostly outside of...

Tourism has been the only sector strengthened during the crisis, Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) said after a meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura, State Minister Alekos Flambouraris and government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos. The 2017 tourist season...

It might not have been noticed by many, but over the last weekend, Greece's archaeological sites and museums started their summer seasonal hours of operation. However, the revised opening hours were not clearly coordinated and left many confused. The Culture Ministry...

After reviewing the latest data for 2017, Panayiotis Kampouroglou who is the chief executive officer at ICTS Hellas and executive vice president of ICTS Europe is expecting a decline in cruise ship bookings this and the following season, according to...