Over 400 Greek travel agents and tourism professionals recently attended a summer beach party hosted by transavia.com, the lowcost carrier to The Netherlands and France and member of the Air France-KLM Group.
The Municipality of Hersonissos has released a new brochure to promote the area's churches and monasteries to assist travelers interested in religious tourism.
A group of Taiwanese tourists recently departed from Larissa in the Thessaly Region, Greece, with the best of impressions, according to the Larissa Hoteliers Association.
TAIPED, Greece's privatization fund, has launched an open international tender for a cluster of public properties eligible to be developed into boutique hotels or luxury villas/mansions.
A draft bill that simplifies the procedures for the operation of tourism businesses, among other things, was passed in principle and by article by a special parliamentary committee on 2 July.
Crete's local products could lead the way to develop culinary tourism and wine tourism and thus attract more tourists to the popular island, according to Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni.
Greek company Mideast Travel has opened new branches in Glyfada, Mykonos and Istanbul, aiming to strategically expand its network in these three important tourist generating markets.
Top Greek bartenders from Athens and Crete recently got together in Rethymno at the 3rd Cretan Diet Festival and introduced a series of new cocktail recipes based on Cretan products.
Get out your cameras, get creative with chocolate and take part in the chocolate-themed photo contest announced recently by the new Choco Factory and Museum and the Photography Center of Thessaloniki.
Average room rates in hotels in Athens, Greece, were 2.7 percent higher in the first five months of the year and reached 77 euros from 74.97 euros in 2013, according to the president of the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association, Alexandros Vassilikos.
Visitor arrivals to Greece increased by 16.9 percent during the January-May 2014 period reaching 3.6 million, according to data released recently by the Civil Aviation Authority.
Greek online travel agency airtickets.gr has won the "e-Business Excellence" award in the travel category of the e-Bizz Awards held recently in Athens, Greece.
