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Zakynthos in top three for Dutch Travellers

Zakynthos has been a huge draw for tourists from the Netherlands for many years. In a recent survey by the holiday and travel website Griekenland.net Belgium and Dutch tourists have voted Crete, Kos, and Zakynthos as their top three favourite Greek destinations for 2022. Around 1,224 people took part in …

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Is over-tourism ruining Greece?

Several articles recently have written about aspects of tourism in Greece that are causing an impact on popular sights, areas, or beaches. Zakynthos hasn’t escaped, as its own beach, Navagio has been the focus of a few articles asking if its popularity is ruining the beach? Zakynthos is an island …

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Greece and USA strengthen tourism links

In April the Greek Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias met with Geoffrey Pyatt, U.S. Ambassador to Greece. During the meeting, they discussed tourism links between Greece and the USA. Their discussions included updating a 31yr old memorandum between the two countries. The agreement between the countries focuses on several tourism issues notably …

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Greece and Spain discuss tourism links

At the end of April, Olympia Anastasopoulou, Secretary-General for Tourism Policy and Development attended the extraordinary General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in Madrid, Spain. After the General Assembly, Ms Anastasopoulou went on to meet with Fernando Valdes Verelst the Deputy Tourism Minister for Spain, to discuss the …

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Red Arrows train in Greece for 2022 season!

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 …

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Zakynthos holds the record for largest Greek flag

Everywhere you go in Greece you will see iconic blue and white Greek flags. They’re an important symbol to Greek the world over and come in many sizes. Did you know however that the world’s largest Greek flag can be found in Zakynthos? Thanks to the Liveris family, the world’s …

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Positive tourism campaign from Greece

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 …

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Greece supports Ukrainian refugees!

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 …

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Further investment in Greece by Goldman Sachs

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 …

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Greece aims to extend Tourism season

  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 …

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