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On 20 June the exhibition areas of the new Acropolis Museum will remain open from 8am until 12 midnight with reduced admission.

Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni presented Greece’s action plan for tourism to representatives of the Southeast Europe Association (Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft – SOG), a Munich based think-tank.

Plans for the construction of a new metro line in Athens, which will service many densely populated areas of the city, were revealed recently by the Greek Ministry of Infrastructure.

Amadeus Hellas recently launched the Amadeus Selling Platform Connect, a professional booking platform that boasts a powerful set of core features needed to perform key booking tasks.

The T.E.I. of Central Macedonia in Serres is offering a Postgraduate Program “MBA in Hospitality and Tourism” for the academic year 2014-2015. The Program is taught in English.

The Greek ministries of tourism and culture have agreed on joint actions to promote Greek tourism and the country’s cultural heritage and wealth.

A weekly non-stop flight connecting Shanghai to Athens has been launched by the Shanghai Workers International Travel Service, a leading tour operator in China.

Greece has maintained its ranking as the third most popular destination in Europe, with 4.6 million passenger visits in 2013, according to figures released on 16 June by the Cruise …

The island of Milos, famed for its coastline, officially took its name as a “holy island” over the weekend of 14-15 June.

Travelport has launched an upgraded version of its popular Travelport Mobile Agent (TMA) tool introducing a range of new features and functionality for its agency users.

The airports in Athens and Heraklion, Crete, are among the 75 airports in Europe that have been called to follow a set of EU rules on airport charges as mentioned …

Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni urged certain individuals working in the tourism sector to not take advantage of the country’s increase in tourist arrivals and raise prices in popular destinations.

“Athens is and remains the most inexpensive capital city in Europe based on benchmarking data,” the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association said in response to recent reports concerning rising hotel …

Travelport announced on 12 June that it has acquired Hotelzon, a leading, B2B hotel distribution technology provider, for an undisclosed sum.

Greece aims to turn its healthy, Mediterranean-based, diet into an international trend to attract more tourist arrivals, Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni informed professionals at the Greek food products exhibition …

Travelport recently outlined details of its new global brand vision and strategy.

Olga Kefalogianni remained at her post as Greece’s Tourism Minister following the cabinet reshuffle of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Monday 9 June 2014.

The abandoned Acropole Palace Hotel, located on the corner of Patision and Averof Streets in Athens center, will operate as a cultural center at the end of 2015.

The Greek Culture Ministry will further cooperate with Google to include Greece’s most popular archaeological sites and museums in the Street View map service to boost the promotion of the …

In celebration of its fifth birthday on Friday 20 June 2014, the Acropolis Museum in Athens will present the horsemen on the West Frieze of the Parthenon through three-dimensional digital …