Guests and visitors at the Sofitel Athens Airport these days are invited to take a journey through taste, a few thousand kilometers away, to Marseille, the city that was founded in 546 b.C. by Greek colonists from Phocaea.
In its 29th year, Philoxenia, Greece's meeting point for the development of strategies and business alliances among tourism professionals, will open its doors on Thursday 21 November 2013 at the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center.
The promotional video of the Municipality of Chania’s tourism campaign was once again honored as it won three awards at this year's ART & TUR International Tourism Film Festival that took place recently in Barcelos, Portugal.
The Greek Tourism Ministry and the Union of Hellenic Chambers agreed on 19 November to create a joint committee and conduct meetings on a regular basis to establish their cooperation on tourism issues.
Greek travel and tourism organization Amphitrion Group of Companies has been selected as the organizer and host of the 2015 International Agritourism Convention in Greece.
Emirates airline has broken all records in civil aviation with an order for 150 Boeing 777X, comprising 35 Boeing 777-8Xs and 115 Boeing 777-9Xs, plus 50 purchase rights; and an additional 50 Airbus A380 aircraft.
The target for 2014 is sustainable long-term growth securing the domestic tourism product. For tourism to become a modern profitable industry of the Greek economy with strong foundations.
For the Municipality of Thessaloniki, tourism today is a priority and strengthening the international recognition of Thessaloniki is a strategic choice.
This year's significant increase in tourist arrivals in Greece with more than 17.5 million visitors and 12 billion euro revenue vindicates our efforts. All Greeks share the responsibility and the contribution to the success of our country.
For many years, Philoxenia has been opening the way for important business meetings and workshops between all relevant parties that focus on the development and progress of Greek tourism.
The recent statistics indicating a quite significant increase on arrivals, prove that our efforts are flourishing. The tourism sector in Greece has grown by 9.2 percent, while the annual forecast for 2013 is 17.000.000 visitors.
The country's image abroad is improving dramatically. The 2013 season will apparently break all the records reaching 17.5 million international visitors and € 11.5 billion international receipts.
Undoubtedly this year, our country as a tourist destination, worked better, more efficiently and consistently and placed itself in a much better spot than last year, in terms of the destination’s international image and attractiveness.
Besides the remarkable growth of key indicators of tourism -arrivals and revenue- that showed the industry’s strength and potential, the overall assessment leaves us with a “legacy” of food for thought, analysis and debate for the future.
Overall, in the aftermath of summer we observe a slight increase of the Adriatic Sea passenger traffic, whilst on domestic
lines, passenger volumes remained at 2012 levels.
