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The Red Arrows display team are currently in Greece completing training sessions before a busy summer 2022 of scheduled events. The training exercise is called Exercise Springhawk and the team said on their website and social media that they will be spending about four weeks in Greece to perfect and …

In the last few weeks, there have been lots of announcements from the Greek Government, relating to a new “door to door” campaign where Greece has been promoted across several countries including Germany, Romania Scandinavia, and Serbia. The campaign was to try and attract more tourists to visit Greece, most …

Tourism: In 2019, traffic returned to the 14 regional airports in April How passenger traffic is shaped. At which airports did the number of passengers exceed that of 2019?   Passenger traffic at the 14 regional airports managed by Fraport Greece returned to 2019 levels in April. According to the …

Panic in Chania on a flight from London – Drunk passengers punched the pilot and passengers. Panic erupted at Chania airport n Tuesday night on a Wizz Air flight.  a British tourist started beating other passengers, shortly after landing at Chania airport. According to testimonies, the 30-year-old along with a …

An increase in traffic accidents in Zakynthos with victims being tourists travelling on quads.     The concern is expressed by the employees in the field of health and especially within our local Hospital, as the increase of traffic accidents and especially the incidents involving tourists who travel around on …

The protocol regarding the sanitary measures that will be valid in this year’s Panhellenic examinations, as well as during the examination of the music courses “Music performance and interpretation”, “Music perception and knowledge” and the practical tests for admission to TEFAA, was announced by the Ministry Education.   Specifically, according …

The Greek tourism sector will be given a boost this season by taking on Ukrainian refugees as employees. It’s been confirmed that approximately 10,000 residence permits have been given to Ukrainians, and approximately 25,000 of them have also received permits to work in Greece too. This year there has been …

It’s been announced that Goldman Sachs will invest more money in Greece by buying and updating three hotels belonging to the GHotels group, which is currently run by the Grigoriadis family. The hotel deal includes two four-star properties and one five-star hotel in Halkidiki. It’s estimated that the three properties …

  This week the Greek Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said that Greece hopes to extend the Greek tourism season to December. Mr Kikilias noted that the start of 2022 had started positively, showing signs that Greek tourism was returning to good levels, with a good start to the season. Mr …

In the last week the Greek Minister of Tourism, Vassilis Kikilias met with his Romanian counterpart to discuss welcoming more Romanian tourists to Greece this summer. This meeting was part of a wider tour to discuss promoting Greece to specific countries in the hope of welcoming new tourists. Greece has …