Event News

In efforts to promote local products and introduce the region as a gastronomy destination, Halkidiki authorities are organizing “Halkidikis Gefseis” (Tastes of Halkidiki) on Thursday 11 December at the Acropolis Museum restaurant in Athens.

Travel agents from Turkey were recently introduced to seven Greek hotels and informed on their special features that could attract the average Turkish visitor.

Not one, not two, but hundreds of Santas came to town in Athens on Sunday 7 December, bringing holiday cheer to a post-crisis Greece and raising funds for the creation of local playgrounds.

More than 500 priceless artifacts from 21 Greek museums will be brought together at the world premiere of the original exhibition “The Greeks – Agamemnon to Alexander the Great” that will open at the Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal’s museum of Archaeology and History, on 12 December.

A total of 38 galleries will open their doors to the works of some 300 artists on 13-14 December for this year’s “Gallery Weekend” to take place in Athens and Thessaloniki.

The New York stock exchange in collaboration with Capital Link organized “Greek Day at the NYSE” on Tuesday, when the Greek delegation headed by Shipping and Aegean minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis and Greek NYSE-listed companies rang the stock market’s Closing Bell.

The Titania Hotel in Athens will be holding festive Christmas and New Year’s events in its luxurious spaces with superb and affordable holiday menus.

The second Business Travel Professionals Forum (BTPF), set to take place on 11-12 December in central Athens, is expected to see a 60 percent increase in participation.

The Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agencies (HATTA) will host a familiarization trip in Athens for tour operators and journalists from Kuwait and Bahrain during 4-8 December.

The two centrally located hotels in Athens, Grande Bretagne and King George, are preparing to pleasantly surprise their guests with their Christmas stories during the festive period.