connect with us
Greece's latest tourism industry news by Greek Travel Pages

New Tourism Zoning Plan In Greece Aims For Investments, Quality Tourists

Greece's new Special Zoning Plan for Tourism is expected to result to large investments, attract quality tourists and big spenders from abroad and extend the tourism season.

Superfast Ferries Launches New Website

Greece-based ferry company Superfast Ferries has launched a brand new functional and easy to navigate website.

Greek Ferry Schedules 2014 – Tourism Professionals & Travelers Welcome Early Announcement

Tourism professionals in Greece and abroad, as well as travelers wishing to visit the country, welcome the early announcement of Greek ferry schedules For 2014. For the first time in the recent years of the Greek travel sector, the ferry schedules to a number of the most popular...
Greek tourism education
off

GTP’s Guide to Tourism Education in Greece

GTP Special on Tourism Education in Greece.
off

Attica Group Holds 9th Employee Blood Donation Drive

Attica Group recently carried out its voluntary blood donation drive for employees “Blood Ties” for the ninth consecutive year in collaboration with the Athens General Hospital “G. Gennimatas.”
off

Greece Among Top Options For Cruise Operators

Greece appears among the top options of international cruise operators who are now drafting their 2014 schedules.
off

New Metro Station In Athens To Open In One Month

The Haidari metro station on line 3 (blue line) "Agia Marina" is expected to open to the public by the end of September at the latest, reports said today.
off

CNN Singles Out Nine Top Greek Islands To Visit

American news network CNN singled out nine out of Greece's 1,400 islands and labeled them as the Mediterranean's most beautiful assets. CNN presented the nine Greek islands on its news website and noted what makes each of these destinations stand out.
off

Seaplanes Included On Greek Merchant Marine Minister’s Agenda

Merchant Marine Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said the Greek Government would offer its full support to the bill that simplifies the licensing and operation of waterways in Greek waters.
off

Four New Metro Stations Open Today, 26 July, At Noon

Four new metro stations on Vouliagmenis Avenue - Ilioupoli, Alimos, Argyroupoli and Elliniko - on the southern extension of line two (red line) will open and begin serving passengers at noon on Friday 26 July.
off

Blue Star Patmos Celebrates First Birthday

Blue Star Ferries announced the one year anniversary since the ultra modern addition to its fleet, the Blue Star Patmos vessel, was launched on the the Piraeus-Chios-Mytilini route.
off

Faliro May Be Attica’s Central Seaplane Base

The area of the Peace and Friendship Stadium (known as SEF) may become Greece’s main waterway for connections to various destinations in the country, according to a recent announcement by Greek company Hellenic Seaplanes. SEF is located in the Faliro area of Piraeus.
off

Greek Passenger Ship Catches Fire Off Samos

Hellenic Seaways passenger ship "Nissos Mykonos," carrying 248 passengers, caught fire earlier today, 14 June, while it was sailing from Piraeus to Samos.
off

Greece Has High Hopes For Marine Tourism

Understanding, social peace and responsibility between all parties are the three things needed for Greece’s marine tourism to get off the ground, according to Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni.
off

TURSAB: Xanthi Has Treasures But Lacks Infrastructure

“Maybe it is my fault that as a professional I did not know Xanthi, but Xanthi is also to blame as the destination is not promoted in Turkey,” the representative of TURSAB for the European side, Aziz Ciga, said recently while speaking at a conference held by the Chamber of Xanthi.
off

Hilton Athens Holds Career Week For Students

Hilton Athens participated in the Careers@Hilton Live event organized 22-26 April by Hilton Worldwide at some 100 hotels in 25 European countries.
off

Bird’s Eye Panoramic Photos Of The Acropolis Now Online

After uploading the breathtaking aerial photos of Oia, Santorini, last February, Airpano has now posted online its high resolution panoramic images of the Acropolis.
off

Minoan Lines’ Itineraries Disrupted 16 April Due to Seamen’s Strike

Minoan Lines informs passengers that all itineraries scheduled on Tuesday 16 April 2013, from Piraeus, Heraklion, Patras and Igoumenitsa will remain suspended due to the 24-hour strike of the Pan-Hellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO).
off

HELMEPA Launches 2013 Slogan Competition On Facebook

The Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association (HELMEPA) is inviting its online followers to pick the new slogan of its summer campaign through a competition to be run exclusively through Facebook.
off

Minoan Lines’ Itineraries Disrupted Due to Seamen’s Strike Tomorrow

Minoan Lines informs passengers that all itineraries scheduled on Wednesday, 3 April 2013, departing from the ports of Piraeus and Heraklion will remain suspended due to the 24-hour strike of the Pan-Hellenic Seamen’s Federation.