The Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (HCAA) recently extended its Covid-19 aviation directives (NOTAMs) that include the rules travelers arriving in Greece on international flights must follow. Besides abolishing last week the once mandatory Passenger Locator Form (PLF), Greece has kept all other rules as before. The extended rules will be in place until April 4 […]
Photo source: @Visa The Greek Tourism Ministry is aiming to attract more remote workers as part of an agreement with digital payments company Visa. Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias hopes to attract Visa executives to Greece where they will work remotely as part of the ministry’s ongoing digital nomads initiative. The tourism ministry said Visa can […]
The Greek Tourism Ministry announced this week that it was designing in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) a new legal framework that would set out the conditions for the development of health and wellness tourism. “A framework that aims to cover all aspects of medical tourism and wellness tourism for those who visit […]
Greece’s health and tourism ministries presented on Thursday a set of new Covid-19 health protocols to be implemented by hotels and other tourism-related companies. The regulations, which have been made public through a joint ministerial decision published recently in the Government Gazette, take effect immediately and expire on May 31, 2023. Among others, tourism
The Porto Carras Grand Resort, located on the west coast of Sithonia in Halkidiki, Northern Greece, will be offering its unique hospitality experiences to guests this season from April 21. Porto Carras will operate its five-star Meliton hotel which offers 324 spacious rooms and 155 luxury suites with a unique view to Toroneos gulf, the marina […]
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) is calling on governments in Europe, Canada, the US and Latin America to end Covid-19 testing requirements for vaccinated travelers. “It’s been almost two years since the global pandemic was declared and while entire segments of the global economy have successfully reopened, business travel is still lagging far behind […]
Photo source: Eurostat Greece is among the countries that recorded the largest increases in the number of nights spent in 2021 compared to 2020, according to data released by Eurostat this week. The latest data reveals a rise in overnight stays of over 70 percent for Greece, Spain and Croatia, and notes that the overall […]
As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen incoming tourism flows, Greek Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias met with the board of the Greece-France Parliamentary Friendship Group of the French Senate in Athens recently. Topping the agenda of talks between the minister and Greece-France Parliamentary Friendship Group Chairman Didier Marie and vice presidents Françoise Dumont
Photo source: @Aegean Airlines Air travel must be ‘reinvented’ as people discover travel again after more than two years of Covid-19, AEGEAN Airlines Corporate Affairs Manager Maria Spyridaki said during a hospitality and tourism conference in Athens on Thursday. Titled “Hospitality goes live Athens. The future is now”, the conference was part of the COCO-MAT […]
Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said this week that he would be calling on hoteliers to offer discounts to Greeks after spring in order to ensure that everyone has a chance to holiday. Kikilias told SKAI television that he had already spoken with Hellenic Hoteliers Federation (POX) Grigoris Tasios, requesting that actions be taken by hoteliers so that […]

















