General Events & Happenings

The Heraklion Port Authority held an event on 20 December to welcome the MSC FANTASIA, the last cruise to dock at the port for 2013.

Santorini’s best images and tastes will be available in Athens and be the main attractions at the Christmas Bookshop Party of the Melissa Publishing House on Sunday 15 December 2013.

Thessaloniki was recently promoted as a city break destination to the emerging markets of Russia and Germany during a recent press trip organized by Marketing Greece and the Thessaloniki Hotels Association.

The Greek Diet’s beneficial impact to health was presented recently at a special event at the United States Congress in Washington.

The Greek capital’s most important places of tourist and cultural interest were introduced in November to a group of journalists from major Hungarian newspapers and magazines during a press trip organized by the GNTO office in Austria.

This Christmas, a special toy factory will be set up downtown in the City of Athens Technopolis in the Gazi district!

“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.

A total of 150 small Greek producers, 1,200 handpicked products, events that include cooking classes by famous chefs…are just some of the activities visitors to the food festival “Greece, Celebration – Tastes – Christmas 2013” will experience at the Helexpo exhibition center in Marousi, Athens.

This year was one of the best in terms of Turkish arrivals to Greece, Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni said during a special event for the promotion of Greek tourism to the Turkish market held in the Greek Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.