Awards

Etihad Airways is celebrating social media success after being named winner of the Best Emerging Airline on Social Media Award at the SimpliFlying Awards 2014, and for having reached one million Facebook fans globally.

Ethiopian Airlines won the Passenger Choice Awards for “Best Airline in Africa” for the second time in a row at the APEX 2014 EXPO in the Anaheim Convention Centre in California.

The readers of Condé Nast Traveller were asked to pick their favorite islands for holiday in 2014 and the Greek Islands ranked second best in the world following the Maldives.

Crete’s successful tourism campaign “Incredible Crete: Surprisingly yours!” was recently honored at the 6th International Festival of Tourism and Environmental Film Festival Silver Lake Tourfilm Festival – SILAFEST ’14.

The Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, ranks among the world’s top 25 museums on travel website TripAdvisor’s annual Travelers’ Choice awards for top museums in the world.

Athens, Greece, is one of the five winners in the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ 2014 Mayors Challenge, a competition to inspire cities to generate innovative ideas that solve major challenges and improve city life, and that ultimately can spread to other cities.

Hellenic Seaplanes has been selected as a National Champion representing Greece in the 2014/15 European Business Awards (EBA), a prestigious and independent awards competition, sponsored by RSM International.

During the summer, Greece received various industry awards and recognition for excellence in regards for sites, hotels, restaurants, sustainability, etc. The following are some of Greece’s most important accolades.

South African Airways (SAA) has once again scooped awards at the 2014 Business Traveller Africa Awards.

Greece is among the top 10 winners of the new Global Beachfront Awards that recognize countries with the most accommodation located directly on the beach.