Source: Le Figaro Magazine Greece’s Mount Pelion and its hidden treasures are featured in a 10-page article published in the latest issue of France’s “Le Figaro Magazine”. Written by travel editor Sarah Chevalley, the article is titled “Balade au pays des centaures” (walk in the land of centaurs) and includes photos of Laurent Fabre. It […]
After weeks of disagreement and reluctance EU member states have agreed on a set of guidelines that will allow for the establishment of an EU-wide accepted vaccination certificate to be used for “medical purposes”, said the European Commission this week. The approved standards, which have the support of the European Commission, also set out the […]
Greece 2021 Committee President Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Photo source: primeminister.gr Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis invited the country’s main bodies, federations, chambers and institutions to come up with ways to tap into Greece’s significant potential in the next 20 years – ideas which will be presented during the
The Association of Greek Archaeologists is calling on the government to allow the re-opening of museums and archaeological sites with the implementation of health protocols and free admission for the first month of operation. Museums and sites have been closed for nearly four months due to coronavirus pandemic measures in place to contain the spread […]
Tapping into renewable energy technologies in order to improve the energy efficiency of Greek hotels is at the center of a memorandum of understanding signed this week between the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels (HCH) and the Center for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES). The MoU was signed by CRES General Director Lampros Pyrgiotis and […]
Deputy Development & Investments Minister Yiannis Tsakiris and EIB President Werner Hoyer The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Greece agreed on Monday to allocate 200 million euros in funds to accelerate small-scale investments in innovation, entrepreneurship, clean energy, environmental protection, education and health. The funding is aimed at ensuring
The European Travel Commission (ETC) and Eurail have launched a joint award competition for the Best European Rail Tourism Campaign 2021, as part of the European Year of Rail (EYR) initiative that kicked off on January 1. The award will be given to the marketing campaigns that best promote rail travel as a sustainable tourism […]
“One in two commercial businesses will not manage to recover [from the coronavirus crisis] and this confirms our estimation that a third national lockdown could be disastrous,” the Athens Traders Association (ESA) said on Monday. The association presented the results of a survey conducted during the week that followed the reopening of retail shops and shopping […]
Photo source: @European Commission Mandatory testing before departure, stricter measures to address virus variants, and a common European Passenger Locator Form are additional ideas tabled by the European Commission in response to safe travel in the Covid-19 era. The announcement came after the Commission proposed an update to the Council’s October
Starting on Tuesday, non-US citizens traveling from the United Kingdom, Ireland and 26 countries in Europe, including Greece, will not be allowed entry into the United States, following a decision by President Joe Biden in efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 and its variants. The ban also bars non-US citizens from entry if they […]


















