Nikos Krinis

The four-star Golden Age Hotel in Athens underwent an extensive renovation and is aiming to offer the best of services to its business travelers.

Greece needs to make certain changes if it is to move forward and attract more foreign investment, according to Sani/Ikos Group CEO Andreas Andreadis.

Greek hoteliers were introduced to the latest on investments, big data and digital distribution, at the 2nd International Hospitality Forum in Athens.

Greek Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura gave an update on the ministry’s efforts to further develop tourism in Greece through new legislative interventions.

The Greece-Russia Year of Tourism 2017-2018 initiative wrapped up with a big music and dance event held at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron).

Spanish airline Volotea has announced the launch of three new routes in 2019 from Athens to Rhodes, Strasbourg and Dubrovnik.

Fifty percent of Greek hotels are “Stars” and 25 percent are “Zombies”, according to a PwC report that focuses on the structural analysis of the sector.

Greece’s city of Thessaloniki in October 2019 will have the opportunity to present its food tourism offerings as the host destination to the new “FoodTreX” food travel conference.

Greek car rental company Avance Rent a Car introduced its new logo for the brand at this year’s WTM London 2018 trade show.

Greek carrier Ellinair offered insights on aviation and its connection with marketing, tourism and technology, to students of Thessaloniki’s Mediterranean College.

Argo Travel Group in 2019 will launch three projects, aiming to promote important thematic tourism forms (religious, wedding and medical) in Greece to markets abroad.

Ryanair is interested in developing further routes from Greece to Cyprus, according to the airline’s sales & marketing manager for East Med, Nikolas Lardis.

Celestyal Cruises is going full speed ahead in its aim to extend the cruise tourism season in Greece, according to the company’s CEO, Chris Theophilides.

The concept of “Gastrodiplomacy”, a way of promoting a country’s local culinary scene, was introduced to an audience of tourism professionals during the WTM London 2018 trade show.

With the traditional market of the United Kingdom showing growth, Greece is expecting a new record of British arrivals in 2018.

Minister Elena Kountoura was quick to respond when CNN International’s Richard Quest asked her to promote Greek tourism… in just 15 seconds.

Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura, during WTM London 2018, shared Greece’s best practices and actions implemented to overcome challenges and achieve tourism growth.

The booking behavior of British holidaymakers for Greece does not seem to currently have a “Brexit effect”.

Ryanair’s new Dublin-Thessaloniki flight, to take off in 2019, has sparked interest for the northern Greek destination of Halkidiki from the Irish market.

Greece’s new growth plan for the “next day in tourism” was presented to the world on the opening day of the WTM London 2018 trade show.