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Greece is speeding up works at the Amphipolis tomb in order for the site to initially welcome specific groups of audiences by the beginning of 2022.

The airports of Athens and Thessaloniki welcomed the majority of Greece’s international air arrivals in November 2019.

Travel receipts in Greece during the first ten months of 2019 exceeded the total amount of the country’s revenues in 2018, according to INSETE.

Five Aegean islands – Leros, Lesvos, Kos, Samos and Chios – have received a six-month extension to their special value-added tax (VAT) status.

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest aviation group in Africa, has resumed flights between Addis Ababa and Athens, which now marks the carrier’s 20th destination in Europe.

Greek businesses affected by the collapse of Thomas Cook can apply to receive loans at subsidized interest rates, according to the Ministry of Development and Investment.

Airbnb says it remains 100 percent committed to partnering with cities, following the ruling of the EU’s highest court, which rejected a French hotels association suit against the home sharing …

The Greek Tourism Ministry will support the Ironman 70.3 Greece 2020 mega sporting event as part of its strategy to diversify the country’s tourism product and attract more visitors.

The head of an Ancient Kouros statue was recently confiscated by the Attica Security Division of Cultural Heritage and Antiquities Department.

The hospitality sector in Greece managed to withstand during the economic crisis that gripped the country in 2009, according to a study by STR.

The decision to transfer a section of an ancient Roman road discovered during excavation works for Thessaloniki’s metro, has triggered the angered reaction of archaeologists.

The EBRD will invest 22.7 million euros in the share capital increase of Lamda Development, the company behind the ‘Hellinikon’ venture.

Fifty-three Greek companies active in tourism have made it into Greece’s list of the 500 most profitable businesses for 2018.

Greece has been listed among the top 20 most attractive locations for investment in fDi’s “Tourism Locations of the Future” ranking for 2019-2020.

The EU’s highest court has rejected a French hotels association suit against Airbnb, ruling that the home-sharing platform is not required to hold a real estate agent’s licence in order …

The Hellinikon project will move ahead as planned despite the recent delays, according to Greek Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis.

A total of 115 airlines are banned from EU skies, according to the EU Air Safety List that was updated recently by the European Commission.

Condé Nast Traveller readers in London recently had the chance to learn all about Greece’s thematic forms of tourism.

Data on Greece’s GDP in the third quarter of 2019 shows that the country’s economic activity grew stronger than initially expected, mainly due to tourism.

The Tourism Ministry presented its 2020-2021 Marketing Strategy for the tourism development of Greece’s 13 regions.