The Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) will soon promote Santorini via a social media campaign to boost the island's image, which was tainted last week due to a black out that ended up lasting several days.
Santorini - one of Greece's most popular holiday destinations - was literally left in the dark on Tuesday noon, 13 August, due to a fire at a power station that cut electricity to the entire island.
The Tourism & Development Association of Tsagarada is holding the 1st Sea & Mountain Sports Festival, a five-day adventure that combines relaxing holidays in Tsagarada, Pelion, with the excitement of taking part in spectacular extreme sports activities.
The European Commission and The European Travel Agents' and Tour Operators' Associations (ECTAA) are asking tour operators and travel agents to promote the pan-European emergency number “112” on their websites, on e-tickets, and at major tourist destinations.
Summer season 2013 will be marked with the opening of the third hotel of Cronwell Gallery in Greece, the new five-star Cronwell Platamon Resort situated on the shore of the Aegean sea in Platamonas of the Pieria region.
The Chalkidiki Hotel Association held its second annual Christmas charity cocktail event on Friday, 14 December, at the Maison Crystal in Thessaloniki, aiming to support institutions of the Chalkidiki region.
Kyrimai Hotel in Gerolimenas, Mani, southern Peloponnese, a member of Historic Hotels of Europe (HHE), received the “Best Historic Hotel by the Water” award for 2013 during the second HHE hoteliers’ meeting 7-9 October in Ireland. Kyrimai excelled in its category...
“The slander against our country weighs heavily during this particularly sensitive period in which early bookings are in process for this year’s tourism season,” the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agencies (HATTA) said last month in regards to the violent street...
While the Greek capital counted losses last month in bookings and revenue due to violent protests at Syntagma Square in late June that resulted to some 20,000 cancelations in 21 central hotels in Athens, tourism traffic for the rest of Greece showed positive signs.
The Alexandra Beach Hotel & Bungalows located at Tsilivi beach on Zakynthos had its traditional blessing recently and opened its doors for the 2011 tourism season.
Athenian hoteliers saw a 6.7 percent drop in hotel occupancy this past September, along with a 9.2 percent decrease in the revenue per available room in five-, four- and three-star hotels, President of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association Yiannis Retsos said last month during his...
The Foreign Ministry last month announced a visa extension to Russian citizens that were on holiday in Greece and hesitant to return to their fire-stricken homeland.
Almost two weeks after the violent anti-austerity protests in Athens center on 5 May, during which three people died in a fire set by self-styled anarchists, some 28,000 hotel room reservations were canceled in the Greek capital and the trend is steadily rising, Athens-Attica...
The government's excuse for lifting the hunting ban in favor of protecting small hotels and related businesses is worthy of mockery, the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature recently said in an announcement.
Greece has a "tough" currency and increased labor costs while images recently released have been devastating for the country's tourism: fires, terrorism attacks, prison escapes and battle scenes on the streets of Athens, stressed Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos at...
In an attempt to restore the natural environment that was damaged by the destructive fires of 2007, a reforestation campaign in the woods of Kaiafa was recently held by the Tourism Development Company in cooperation with the Olympia Forestry and volunteer groups.
After the recent homicide of an Australian tourist who was beaten to death, allegedly by a Greek bouncer on Mykonos, Tourism Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos convened an emergency meeting with officials from other ministries in the framework of setting up a Crisis Management...
