Tag Archives: Greek tourism

  March has arrived and it not only brings Spring, and the clocks changing, but it also brings the first UK tourist flight to the island. Yes, in just three and half weeks, the new summer tourism season will begin and once again tourists will start flocking to their favourite …

  Greek tourism is booming already this year and it’s only March. An increase in visitors to a variety of Greek islands has seen Greece getting a head start on tourism in 2023. The news from a Business Trends study by the National Bank of Greece is positive, and they …

It’s been announced that Greece has received approx. 3,477,900 visitors through its airports in June 2022. It’s a positive increase in visitors in comparison to June 2021, when only around 1,1 million visitors were recorded. The Minister of Tourism, Mr Kikilias confirmed the details and said that the results are …

Recently the Greek Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias met with several countries to boost tourism to Greece in the future. His latest meeting has been with Veroljub Arsic president of the Tourism Committee of the Serbian parliament and president of the parliamentary Serbia-Greece Friendship Group who said that Greece is the …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

This week Thomas Cook’s CEO, Alan French announced that Greece is not only selling well, but the sales currently make up 30% of their bookings for 2022. Speaking to the press Mr French said “Currently 30 per cent of our bookings are for Greece, while bookings for some popular Greek …