Destinations

The Region of Central Greece has launched a promotional campaign in the Greek capital and is inviting commuters of the Athens Metro to visit one of its destinations.

The picturesque island of Santorini will as of 2017 implement a system controlling the number of visiting cruise passengers, with a set limit at 8,000 a day in efforts to ensure the best quality services, safeguard the environment and spread out the number of cruise ship calls throughout the week.

Within its recent series of visits to the 14 regions in Greece where German transport company Fraport will operate the local airports, a management team visited the Sporades island of Skiathos to touch base ahead of the launch of operations there next year.

Corfu, Delphi, Eleusina, Ioannina, Kalamata, Larissa, Lesvos, Messolonghi, Piraeus, Rhodes, Salamina, Samos, Tripoli and Volos are candidate cities for the title of European Capital of Culture in 2021.

Messinia, in the southwestern Peloponnese, this year is expected to see a 28 percent increase in air arrivals compared to 2015, as a result of the launch of new air routes to and from Kalamata’s international airport “Captain Vassilis Konstantakopoulos” as of April.

Discover Greece is giving travellers from around the world the opportunity to make their dream holiday in Greece a reality through its new “Dream Up Summer” campaign!

Greece should expect some 800,000 tourist arrivals from Serbia this year, according to the Central Macedonia prefect Apostolos Tzitzikostas.

Connecting the city of Izmir in Turkey with Thessaloniki in Greece, topped the agenda of talks last week between a visiting Turkish delegation and the Thessaloniki Port Authority (TPA).

Promoting the tourism offerings of the region and implementing the successful Greek Breakfast program, as well as dealing with structural and fiscal issues impacting the tourism industry, topped the agenda of a tourism workshop held last week at the Dimitsana Conference & Cultural Center.

Aiming to boost arrivals from Israel to the mountainous region of Evrytania in central Greece, the area’s hoteliers association recently participated in the recent International Mediterranean Tourism Market (IMTM) in Tel Aviv.