General Events & Happenings

Global airline alliance SkyTeam recently hosted a dinner at Botrini’s restaurant in Athens to show its appreciation to all Greek travel partners for their continued support.

The owners of the Sonia Village Hotel in Chalkidiki recently held an event to celebrate the hotel’s first place in the 2013 European RELACS Awards for Green Energy in Tourism.

MidEast Travel and the Poseidonion Grand Hotel recently promoted Spetses Island as one of the top Greek destinations for leisure travel during a familiarization trip held for prominent figures of Arab countries.

Hollywood stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy were in the Greek capital on 11 June and attended the premiere of their film “Before Midnight” that opened the 3rd Athens Open Air Film Festival.

For two days, six journalists from Shanghai toured Mount Athos and areas around the Aristotelian Mountain to record the features of the area as a tourism destination.

Greek online booking company AirFastTickets threw a big party on 4 June to celebrate the opening of its new and very impressive office in Piraeus.

The great tradition of “Ouzo” on Lesvos Island and its hometown Plomari is introduced to the world through the pages of a luxury publication that presents Greece’s national drink through an anthropocentric perspective.

Thirteen Russian travel agents that exclusively handle VIP clients, were recently introduced to the tourism possibilities of the Mount Athos area during a familiarization trip organized by MidEast Travel.

The British Ambassador to Athens, John Kittmer, was received today, 23 May, by Heraklion Port Authority President and CEO, Ioannis Bras, in Heraklion, Crete.

Travel agents from Russia and eight countries from Asia and the Middle East recently experienced Greece’s 5-star hotels, major sights and discovered the many options Greece offers as a tourism destination.