The Sofitel Athens Airport is offering couples an idyllic dinner at Karavi restaurant for €45 per person or a romantic escape for two with dinner at Karavi restaurant and one night stay in a luxury room with breakfast for €194!
Attica Governor Yiannis Sgouros and the general director of Turkish Airlines in Greece, Gulay Ozturk, have decided to join forces and focus on the tourism cooperation between Greece and Turkey.
Greek tourism professionals, entrepreneurs and professional culinary schools are invited to form partnerships and actively participate in promoting Greek gastronomy through the 37th World Association of Chefs Societies (WACS) Congress that will take place in Athens in 2016.
If Greek tourism professionals, restaurant owners and local producers developed synergies and worked together, Greece’s gastronomy could contribute an additional 500,000 arrivals to Greece, one billion euros to the country's GDP and 50,000 new jobs.
At the 8th HORECA Expo, the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels had a special space reserved for eight regions whose hotels serve the most important meal of the day through recipes based exclusively on Greek products. In other words, they serve “Greek Breakfast!”
Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni traveled to Berlin, Germany, today, 11 February, to meet with leading German travel agents, representatives from TUI and tourism industry associations.
Greece welcomed 875,000 Russian tourists last year with the average expenditure per visit at 1,085 euros but strict visa regulations still remain an obstacle for a major increase of arrivals, it was underlined at the Greek-Russian Forum for tourism held today, Sunday, 10...
Some 1,700 hoteliers from all over Greece attended the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels’ second general assembly that took place this year on the sidelines of the 8th HO.RE.CA. Expo, on Saturday, 9 February, at the Metropolitan Expo Center.
“HO.RE.CA. has become an important trade event for our country that offers opportunities to tourism professionals to stand up to the difficult economic times the country is going through,” Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni said on Friday, 8 February, during the opening...
Aiming to include spa tourism and thermalism within the overall development of the country’s national tourism product, the Greek Tourism Ministry announced another three thermal springs recently recognized by the Natural Thermal Resources Protection Committee.
German tourists will opt for Turkey, Spain and Italy this year while not even one in a hundred will choose Greece, according to a tourism study presented recently in Hamburg by German research institute Foundation for Future Studies (FFS).
Greek tourism professionals took part in the public consultation on a draft tourism bill drawn up by the Greek Tourism Ministry and submitted a series of comments on the proposed regulations for Greek tourism.
Early bookings to Chalkidiki have already reached a double-digit figure mainly from Russia and the Balkan countries, hoteliers in the region said during the Chalkidiki Hotel Association’s general meeting, held last Sunday, 3 February.
Etihad Airways recently reported net profit of US$42 million in 2012, up 200 per cent on 2011 (US$14 million) in a year which saw strong improvements in revenues, passengers numbers and cost control.
Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni met with Israeli President Shimon Peres yesterday, 6 February, in Tel Aviv, on the second day of her official visit to Israel aiming to further advance ties between the two countries.
An observatory on sustainable tourism will be set up in the South Aegean Region to provide all the necessary data to boost growth in Greece, a press release by the Greek Tourism Ministry said. Sustainable tourism observatories gather and report data on the environmental impact of...
