Photo source: UNWTO Nearly half of sector experts (45 percent) expect to see international tourism returning to pre-pandemic 2019 levels in 2024 or later with 43 percent expecting better days in 2023, according to the latest UNWTO Panel of Experts released this week. A closer look at the data reveals that experts forecasting a 2024 […]
“The app has proven itself to be an effective tool to manage the complex mess of travel health credentials that governments require.” – IATA Director General Willie Walsh. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Tuesday announced that Etihad Airways, Jazeera Airways, Jetstar, Qantas, Qatar Airways and Royal Jordanian, will implement IATA Travel Pass in […]
Greek hoteliers are expecting tourism normalcy in 2022, according to Hellenic Hoteliers Federation (POX) President Grigoris Tasios. Speaking recently to the Athens News Agency (ANA), Tasios said he expected tourism-related revenues for 2021 to reach 50 percent of 2019 levels – some 10 billion euros or even more when taking into account September and October […]
UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps Reopening tourism safely and sustainably topped the agenda of a recent G7 transport and health ministers meeting in the UK as part of efforts to get economies rolling in the aftermath of Covid-19. In this direction, the health and transport ministers from the world’s major economies agreed on seven key […]
In efforts to improve the standard of living in the Greek capital and address climate change, Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis said this week that he was considering reinstating the “daktylios” odd/even traffic regulation system. Dubbing the decades-old system the “Green Daktylios”, the mayor announced the idea during the “Citizen Sustain: Building a Better Urban
The rules that all international passengers must follow to travel to Greece have been extended until October 8, the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (HCAA) said on Friday. The rules are part of the HCAA’s Covid-19 aviation directives that concern flights and arrivals to Greece from abroad. In short, arrivals are allowed from EU and Schengen Zone […]
The upcoming exhibitions of TIF-Helexpo in Thessaloniki will take place as planned despite the city switching to “red” status on Greece’s Covid-19 risk-assessment map, according to Greece’s national exhibition body. TIF-Helexpo made the announcement on Friday after Greek authorities decided to impose emergency Covid-19 restrictions in Thessaloniki and other regions in
Photo source: European Commission / © Synthex/Adobe Stock Sixteen major airlines have committed to better inform passengers and timely issue refunds in case of flight cancellations, the European Commission said on Thursday. Among other things, the airlines have committed to refunding passengers within 7 days, as required under EU law, in case of flight cancellations. […]
Greece’s color-coded Covid-19 risk-assessment map. Source: covid19.gov.gr Emergency Covid-19 restrictions will go into effect in the Greek regional units of Thessaloniki, Halkidiki, Kilkis and Larissa as they were declared ‘red’ areas on Greece’s Covid-19 risk-assessment map. The General Secretariat for Civil Protection announced that as of Friday, October 1 and until
Greece’s committee of Covid-19 experts have given their approval for the country to allow the arrival of cruise ships from Turkey, the operation of indoor swimming pools in hotels and of conferences in closed spaces, said Tourism Minister Vasilis Kikilias on Thursday. Speaking to SKAI radio, Kikilias said the committee was open to allowing cruise […]


















