Events

Posidonia 2020, Greece’s prestigious biennial shipping exhibition, has been officially cancelled for this year due to the uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.

The “Hola” Flamenco Festival 2020 will take place in Athens on August 1, aiming to connect Greek and Spanish cultures.

The Chios Music Festival is returning to the Aegean island this summer with a redesigned artistic program focusing on Greek artists.

London Travel Week, an event of WTM London, will return in the fall to play a pivotal role in the recovery of the global travel and tourism industry.

Dutch tourism professionals confirmed their interest for Greece, during a networking event held by the GNTO in The Hague, Netherlands.

Registration for the 6th “Santorini Experience” sports tourism event is open, with an early bird 25% discount valid until July 31.

The Metaxa Hospitality Group recently welcomed over 150 German tour operators, travel agents and journalists to its Creta Maris resort on Crete.

The Lavreotiki Municipality will submit a file to the culture ministry in order to be included on UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites list for its vast history and singular geology.

The Greek island of Evia is preparing to host The Authentic Marathon Swim, a prime sports tourism event scheduled to take place from September 4-6.

The Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) has included a number of cultural and sport events under its auspices this summer.

Thessaloniki’s tourism offerings were presented to Chinese travel professionals during the “Partnerships in European Tourism” virtual expo.

Restoration works budgeted at 3.7 million euros at the UNESCO World Heritage of Philippi in Northern Greece, are moving ahead as scheduled.

The Acropolis Museum in Athens, welcomed a total of 1,283,125 visitors from June 2019 to May 2020 despite its forced closure on March 14 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Athens and the nearby island of Aegina have been selected as the filming locations of a new French feature film, titled “On sourit pour la photo”.

Greece’s National Public Health Organization and the Safe Water Sports initiative have joined forces to strengthen safety policies and regulations with regard to recreation at sea.

The Acropolis Museum in Athens turns 11-years-old on Saturday, June 20, and will celebrate with reduced entry to all exhibition areas.

Prominent gastronomy tourism professionals from Greece and Cyprus will meet online during the FoodTreX Greece & Cyprus Food Travel Summit during June 24-25.

Greece will be the partner country of the Matka Nordic Travel Fair 2021 in Helsinki, the largest travel fair in the Nordic countries that is scheduled to take place in …

WTM London has announced that it will be open for “business as usual” at ExCeL during November 2-4, 2020.

The Authentic Marathon Swim, a prime sports tourism event to take place on the island Evia, has been rescheduled for September 4-6.