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World travel and tourism bodies, including airline associations, say EU recommendations to test travelers from China are a step back.

A license for the creation of a seaplane port in Kymi on the island of Evia has been approved, Hellenic Seaplanes recently announced.

The main town of the Greek island of Rhodes was chosen by Dutch travelers as their Favorite Greek City for 2023, according to an online survey conducted by the website …

The Greek culture ministry said it would be moving ahead with the restoration of quake-hit monuments on Kos.

The Municipality of Athens has announced that all of its services for citizens and businesses in the Greek capital are now 100% digital.

Greece will require passengers from China to take preflight Covid test and wear masks on board flights.  

Traffic through Greece’s 14 regional airports exceeded pre-Covid 2019 levels in 2022, handling a total of 31 million passengers.

Crete is swiftly moving forward with procedures to launch works on a waterway network and seaplane ports.

The British Museum said it was in talks with Athens for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece as part of a cultural exchange program.

Ioannina and Epirus are expected to become an important Southeast Europe transport hub, upon the completion of major infrastructure works in the area.

Thessaloniki, Northern Greece was chosen as one of the 23 best destinations to visit in 2023 by the CNN Travel editorial team.

Monemvasia Castle, located on the south-eastern coast of the Peloponnese, is to become accessible thanks to the installation of a cable car.

Greece ranked 2nd in the World’s Most Popular Travel Aesthetics Country list, according to a research recently published by Pour Moi.

Greece was named the World’s 7th Best Place to Retire in 2023, according to International Living’s Annual Global Retirement Index.

Traffic across Greece’s airports managed to exceed pre-Covid 2019 levels in 2022, according to a recently published report by Eurocontrol.

The EU has agreed to introduce pre-departure Covid-19 testing on all arrivals from China, following a surge of the pandemic in the Asian country.

Greece’s Peloponnese region saw tourism-related revenues drop in 2021 despite higher visitor spending, according to data recently released by INSETE.

Maintaining strong tourism demand in 2023 is a key challenge for the Greek economy, according to the latest data released by Alpha Bank.

Greece plans to invest more in connecting culture with travel and in new segments such as senior and accessible tourism.

More retired Germans are interested in buying holiday homes in Greece, according to the German press.