The Thessaloniki Convention Bureau (TCB) has upgraded its website in efforts to facilitate MICE professionals and provide potential customers with information on the city’s available services and venues to host conferences and events. According to TCB Managing Director Eleni Sotiriou, the new website is addressed to a wide audience and presents Thessaloniki’s portfolio of
Tourism Minister Vasilis Kikilias said the 2022 tourism season would start from March during a recent interview on SKAI TV. As part of a long-term strategy for the post-Covid-19 era which includes extending the tourism season beyond summer, Greece is set to open to tourists earlier in 2022, said Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias. “We are […]
Photo source: WTTC Travel and tourism associations in Europe are requesting an end to the use of the combined indicators and color-coded Covid-19 travel guidance systems as well as of all travel restrictions for Digital Covid Certificate (DCC) holders irrespective of their country of origin. The associations, which include ACI Europe, CLIA Europe, ECTAA, ETC, […]
The Attica Region announced this week that it had secured funding through its partnership with the CIVINET Greece-Cyprus network to implement a circular tourism strategy in eight of its island/coastal municipalities. More specifically, the seven Attica island municipalities of Agistri, Aegina, Kythira, Poros, Salamina, Spetses, and Hydra and the coastal municipality
Greece’s northern port city of Thessaloniki was promoted as a tourism destination to German and Polish travel agents and journalists during two fam trips organized by the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) earlier in October. The GNTO services in Germany and Poland held the fam trips to promote Thessaloniki’s city break options, MICE venues and […]
Photo source: European Commission The EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate has played a decisive role in Europe’s response to the pandemic and has facilitated travel supporting the continent’s hard-hit tourism industry, the European Commission said this week. Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas said the EU Digital Covid Certificate confirmed the EU’s role as a “global
The Acropolis, Athens. Photo: GTP Greek tourism may have managed to cover lost ground during the Covid-19 pandemic but in order to keep up the momentum it is vital to formulate a far-reaching strategy for the next decade, said Vassilis Kikilias in an editorial published in Real News. Kikilias went on to add that tourism has […]
Tourism Minister Vasilis Kikilias and AIA CEO Yiannis Paraschis Ways to further promote Athens as a tourism destination, especially during the winter months, were recently discussed between Tourism Minister Vasilis Kikilias and Athens International Airport (AIA) CEO Yiannis Paraschis During a meeting that took place at AIA’s headquarters in Spata, coordination issues and
Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Photo source: @KEDE A new Smart Cities program announced by the Greek government, which involves the digital transformation of municipalities, will be funded with 320 million euros, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Friday during the annual conference of the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece
Photo source: @Lavreotiki Geopark The Municipality of Lavreotiki (Lavrion) has initiated a nomination process for the inscription of its geopark, located on the southeastern tip of the Attica peninsula, on UNESCO’s Global Geoparks Network list. A UNESCO field evaluation mission recently visited Lavreotiki to inspect the geopark and tour some of the area’s main sites […]


















