Tourism

Travel industry giant TUI on Monday sent a message of confidence in Greece and the Greek tourist product, while presenting its winter program to German journalists in Hania, Crete. Despite the crisis being played out in the country and the...

  Greek Alternate Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura underlined that "Greece continues to guarantee the high quality of services offered to visitors that have rendered it a top international tourism destination." At the same time she stated that "the Greek tourism remains...

The capital controls imposed by the Greek government do not apply to tourists and visitors who wish to make transactions or ATM withdrawals using debit or credit cards issued in their country, says an official announcement by the Greek...

"Tourism unites the Greeks," Alternate Minister of Tourism Elena Kountoura said on Wednesday in her address to the Hospitality Forum and Awards conference. "The Greek tourism is on good course," she said quoting Bank of Greece's figures according to which...

The number of visitors to Athens and the Attica region increased in the period January-May, according to a report on Greek Travel Pages website. Citing figures released by the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association, during the January-May 2015 period, the...

Fears that Greece’s negotiation with its creditors will not be fruitful have impacted the country’s political and economic sector, but also tourism. Foreign travel agencies have already demanded Greek hoteliers to sign a Greek default clause. Specifically, organizers of international conferences have...

President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades and outgoing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who is currently on a private visit to Cyprus, held a meeting earlier, discussing energy cooperation, bilateral relations as well as regional issues. According to...

According to financial website This is Money, the British Post Office Travel Money city costs barometer survey, studied the deflation and drop in prices in 28 cities finding the cheapest weakened destinations for Brits in Europe. Athens was placed 5th...

The Greek government will not raise the VAT in tourism and staple goods, according to a document co-signed by Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and Alternate Finance Minister Nadia Valavani, and was submitted to Parliament on Friday as an answer...

Two conservative German lawmakers proposed a 500 euro incentive to German holidaymakers to visit Greece on the condition that they should bring back equal hotel and restaurant receipts. Axel Fischer and Ruediger Kruse, members of the Christian Democratic Union have...