Initiatives

Creta Maris Green Team recently invited the private kindergarten of Hersonissos, Junior Academy, to spend the day in the resort’s areas on the occasion of Recycling Day and to increase awareness and encourage the residents of Crete to contribute all they can to maintain a clean environment.

The agrotourism potential of the Argolida-Corinthos area was explored last week by a group of concerned professionals, members of an agrotourism cluster, who decided to seek insight from an expert in the field on how an area with good wine could become an ultimate tourism destination.

Enjoying travel and tourism is not always easy for people with intellectual and learning difficulties and their families.

“Do the right thing… place all your trash in the bin” is the 2013 “Seagull” slogan that will feature across the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association’s (HELMEPA) summer campaign, the association recently announced.

The Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Association (HELMEPA) is transferring its Marine Environment and Sciences Awareness Campaign from the border city of Alexandroupolis to the island of Rhodes in the Dodecanese.

Amadeus and UNICEF have come together to help shape a better future for the world’s most vulnerable children. The partnership will enable travel providers and sellers to raise funds for UNICEF by giving their customers the opportunity to make a micro donation when paying for travel online.

Emirates recently announced its “A Greener Tomorrow” initiative and has allocated funds of US$150,000 to support environmental or conservation projects.

Greek tourism destinations are currently being promoted through culinary experiences in restaurants in Brussels as part of the “gaΣtronomia@Brussels” initiative of the Greek National Tourism Organization office in Belgium.

The first international summer school in “Managing Tourism in Time of Crisis” that will aim to provide training of high quality on tourism management issues in time of crisis will begin this May on Rhodes.

“Be a sponsor to life” was the slogan of the sixth blood donation drive organized by shipping company ANEK LINES last month in collaboration with the Chania Voluntary Blood Donor Association “Agios Ioannis” and the General Hospital of Chania.