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Crete’s Heraklion Port Authority was awarded for its public management at this year’s “Disrupt, Startup, ScaleUP” conference held at the Athens Concert Hall on 15-16 November, officially launching Global Entrepreneurship Week.

The lack of liquidity is one of the main problems the Greek hotel market is currently up against, according to the president of the Hellenic Hotel Federation, Yiannis Retsos.

Developing the northern port city into a prime conference tourism choice was the focus of “Destination Thessaloniki” held at this year’s Philoxenia exhibition.

A cultural channel via which countries and cities along the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) route will share ideas and work together is the aim of an agreement between the Greek National Theatre and the Azerbaijan State Academic National Drama Theatre.

Travelport has expanded its partnership with TravelClick. The expanded relationship will allow TravelClick to sell advertising products to hotels for display to the 67,000 Travelport connected travel agency customers around the world.

“2015 may be the year for tourism in Thessaloniki,” Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni said Thursday, 13 November, following a meeting she had with the city’s mayor, Yiannis Boutaris, on the sidelines of the 30th Philoxenia expo.

Athens is geared up for two years of high growth as it presents a great opportunity for investment in nearly every hotel category, according to HVS, a leading consulting and services organization focused on the hotel industry.

Following the latest discovery made by archaeologists at the Amphipolis burial mound, a group of Greeks have released a new three-dimensional (3-D) video of its interior.

Promoting Crete as a leading tourist destination to the Chinese market and establishing strong ties between the two countries was the aim of a recent visit to China by Region of Crete representatives and the Heraklion Port Authority.

Attracting tourists to Larissa was at the center of the region’s Hoteliers Association promotional campaign presented to international tour operators at the World Travel Market (WTM) earlier this month.