Awards

Yiannis Boutaris, the current mayor of Thessaloniki, was recently honored for contributing to the commercial development of the wines of Santorini worldwide.

The Caldera Collection hotel group has won the “Most popular 5-star hotel and villas” award for 2016.

Qatar Airways was once again named the Best Middle Eastern/African Airline at the 2016 Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Awards held in Hong Kong in late September.

The “European Region of Gastronomy 2019” title was recently recommended to be given to two bidding regions, South Aegean in Greece and Sibiu in Romania.

Two Athens bars have been named among the top 50 in the world in an international competition held in London by Drinks International magazine.

Costa Navarino and its two signature Golf Courses, The Dunes Course and The Bay Course, have been ranked 6th in Golf World magazines’ latest “European Golf Resorts Top 100” list.

The Nana Beach Hotel on Crete once again has been selected as one of the 100 top hotels working with the German travel agency network RTK.

The best of the best were honored at the first Business Traveller Russia and CIS Awards ceremony held at the Izvestia Hall in Moscow in late September.

Etihad Airways has been awarded the “Airline of the Year” award for the third consecutive year by UK magazine Travel Trade Gazette (TTG).

Athens International Airport (AIA) “Eleftherios Venizelos” was announced as the winner in the 4m-20m Passengers category of the World Routes 2016 Marketing Awards at a ceremony held recently in Chengdu, …

Chevalier, a Greek comedy, has been chosen as Greece’s official entry to Best Foreign Language Film category at the 89th Academy Awards to be held in 2017.

The Hotel Grande Bretagne, a historic landmark in Athens, has been recognized as “Greece’s Leading Hotel” and also received the “Greece’s Leading Hotel Suite” award for its Presidential Suite.

Porto Carras Grand Resort won two categories of the World Travel Awards, which were announced in Sardinia, Italy, in early September.

Costa Navarino’s The Romanos – A Luxury Collection Resort has been awarded the Travelife Gold certification for its sustainability credentials joining 800 hotels across the globe which have been rewarded …

Grace Santorini has clinched the prestigious World Travel Award as Greece’s Leading Luxury Boutique Hotel for 2016.

ANEK LINES has been named a National Champion for Greece in the European Business Awards 2016/17, Europe’s largest business competition set up to celebrate business excellence and best practice in …

The Nana Beach hotel in Heraklion, Crete, has been awarded “We do Local” certification for the second year in a row.

The GB Roof Garden of the Hotel Grande Bretagne has been honored by the Wine Spectator magazine’s annual Restaurant Awards for the fourth year in a row.

Athens, Greece, has been named “World Book Capital” for 2018 on the recommendation of the programme’s Advisory Committee, Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO, announced on Wednesday.

The Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, is the ninth best in the world and fifth best in Europe, according to travel website TripAdvisor’s annual Travelers’ Choice awards for museums.