Destinations

The promotional strategy followed by the Heraklion Port Authority is paying off as visitor numbers to the Cretan city this year showed a major increase – one that will continue in 2014.

“Asterocosmos” Christmas Park will soon open its doors at the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center to celebrate the upcoming festive season.

Greece’s foreign press correspondents were informed on the alternative tourism potential of the Greek island Milos, at a recent event in Athens held by the Milos Mining Museum on the occasion of Miloterranean’s first birthday.

The Region of Peloponnese will showcase some of its finest products in Athens in an exhibition of traditional Peloponnese culture-tourism products.

Mykonos’ Super Paradise beach bar will give Scandinavians a sample of Greek entertainment and clubbing during the upcoming Grekland Panorama travel and taste fair in Stockholm, Sweden.

Thessaloniki is losing out on hosting major international conferences and events due to the lack of a conference and exhibition center in the city, the president of the Thessaloniki Hotels Association, Aristotelis Thomopoulos, informed Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni during the recent 29th Philoxenia exhibition.

Stockholm-based tour operator Ving will bring some 5,000 tourists to the Greek island of Lesvos in 2014.

Three major tourism investments have joined Greece’s fast-track scheme for strategic investments and are underway at Halkidiki, Sitia and Argolida.

The Region of South Aegean has declared 2014 as the “Year of Culture” and will focus on promoting the culture and tradition of the 48 Greek islands it represents.

Hotels in Thessaloniki have joined the “Greek Breakfast” program and have agreed to include Greek products and dishes on their breakfast menus.