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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Zakynthos Airport Zakynthos Airport is an international airport serving hundreds of thousands of tourists each year but it wasn’t always an international hub for holiday travel. Originally the site was an old lake in part of the Zakynthos plains, used for farming, with no plane in sight. Located to the …

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 …