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The Central Union of Municipalities in Greece (KEDE) will include a tourism section to its main website to strengthen and enhance tourism-related initiatives and activities of Greek municipalities.

The Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) held a briefing today, 17 December, to inform on its fundraising campaign that aims to support the implementation of its marketing plan for Greek gastronomy.

Minoan Lines, member of the Grimaldi Group, last week inaugurated its new maritime service between the ports of PATRAS–IGOUMENITSA–ANCONA–TRIESTE, a new service considered to be a significant connection between Greece, Northern Italy and Europe.

This Sunday, the Athens Art Network non profit organization will launch a project that aims to strengthen the cultural identity of the longest avenue in Athens, Patision, through ongoing artistic activity.

The Peloponnese region is offering Greeks and visitors in Athens the opportunity to sample some of its finest products at the Exhibition of Traditional Peloponnese Culture-Tourism Products “Myths, Flavors & Poems” that is in full swing at Klathmonos Square in downtown Athens.

Major tourism investments and an extended tourism season are expected to result from the new Special Zoning Plan for Tourism, the basic points of which were presented today, 13 December, to the Greek media by Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni and Alternate Minister of Environment Stavros Kalafatis.

An international Cretan olive oil tasting event has been scheduled to take place in January 2013 at Swell Restaurant, located on the beach of the Knossos Beach Bungalows & Suites in Kokkini Hani, Heraklion, Crete.

Developing a tourism policy for Thessaloniki is among the municipality’s main priorities, Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris said on Tuesday, 4 December, while unveiling initiatives to reform the Greek Northern city.

Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki, was included as one as one of the new year’s 20 must-see travel destinations in the National Geographic magazine’s “Best of the World 2013” list.

The Greek Tourism Ministry plans to simplify procedures for the certification of Greek thermal springs in accordance to the relevant EU directive, it was announced today, Tuesday, 4 December.