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Greece’s “eco bedding” company, Coco-Mat, is giving away free heart shaped pillows to women facing breast cancer.

The Caryatids of the burial mound at Kasta hill in Amphipolis, Greece, are standing on pedestals that are 1.40 m high and 1.36 m wide. The statues along with their bases reach a total height of 3.67 m.

During the first eight months of the year, hotels in Athens, Greece, saw 390,000 more overnight stays compared to 2013, according to data revealed at a press conference by the head of the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association, Alexandros Vassilikos.

Visitors in the Greek capital are invited to “become” Athenians through a new international tourism promotion campaign named “I’m An Aθenian Too.”

American actress Kirsten Dunst enjoyed shooting the movie “Two Faces of January” in Greece, because it gave her a chance to experience a working vacation.

Guests at the Hilton Athens Hotel in Greece are invited to “make a big difference with small change” this winter to children in need.

Halkidiki, a Greek holiday hotspot located in Northern Greece, was put under the microscope during a recent workshop held by the region’s hotel association on the occasion of World Tourism Day.

The UK edition of the National Geographic Traveller magazine applauds the grandeur of the Parthenon and the Oracle of Delphi in Greece in a recently published feature entitled “Lost cities: The world’s greatest ancient settlements.”

Greek cultural tourism could receive a major boost if important monuments – such as the recently discovered large burial mound in Amphipolis, northern Greece – are handled correctly, Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni said during an interview to a Greek TV station.

Greece remains among the favorite tourism destinations of the Germans even though the summer is over, according to German online travel agency Opodo. Four Greek destinations appear among the 20 most popular holiday spots of German travelers this autumn.