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Greece Closer to Issuing Visas This Summer for Digital Nomads

2021-06-04 by Phil Butler

Chania sunset

The Greek government is looking to offer visas to digital nomads who have the capability of working remotely anywhere in the world.

Tags: COVID nomads, crete, Crete jobs, Crete tax plan, digital jobs, digital nomads, golden visa, Greece, Greece visas, Nikos Alexakis, nomads, pandemic, Panos Karachalios, Panos Karahalious, remote working, Tax incentives, type D visa, Work from Crete, Work from Greece, working from home

Greece to Become New Military Tourism Hotspot – No Really!

2021-06-01 by Phil Butler

Greek Air Force F16 Zeus

Greece’s ministries of Defense, Culture, and Tourism are now pushing for military tourism to fill the gaps in traveler numbers.

Tags: Greece COVID-19, Greece hotels, Greece tourism, Greece travel, Harry Theoharis, Lina Mendoni, military tourism, Nikos Panagiotopoulos

Greek Official Confirms Island Vaccination Plan Was About Economics

2021-05-30 by Phil Butler

Celestial Cruises

Greece now readily admit that the “Blue Freedom” island vaccination plan to help cruise companies. The sad thing is, nobody seems to care.

Tags: Blue Freedom, COVID-19 Greece, Cruise industry, cruise news, Dr. George Pavlakis, Greece 2021, Greece tourism, Greece vaccinations, Greek Islands, Harry Theoharis, Heraklion, Ioannis Plakiotakis, MSC Cruises, TUI, TUI Cruises

A Crete 2021 Tourism Season Instagram Reconnaissance [May 30]

2021-05-30 by Phil Butler

Crete shores

The 2021 tourism season on Crete has opened but so far there don’t seem to be too many tourists on the island. Here’s the Instagram intel.

Tags: Apollonia Beach Resort, Balos Beach, Balos Lagoon, crete, Crete 2021, Crete beaches, Crete destinations, Crete places, Crete tourism, h20 Watersports, Knossos, Knossos Palace, matala, Red Beach, Star Beach, Star Beach Hersonissos, Vai Beach

Kos Island’s Neptune Hotels Opens with Expanded Services

2021-05-27 by Phil Butler

Neptune Hotels - Resort, Convention Centre & Spa

Kos Island’s Neptune Hotels Resort, Convention Centre & Spa has reopened with upgraded amenities and safety protocols for 2021.

Tags: Greece hotels, kos, Kos hotels, Kos Island, Kos resorts, Neptune Beach, Neptune Hotels Resort

Civitel Creta Beach Welcomes Travelers May 28th

2021-05-26 by Phil Butler

Civitel Creta Beach

Civitel Creta Beach hotel, a member of Civitel Hotels & Resorts, will hold its grand opening event for the Summer of 2021 on Friday, May 28.

Tags: Ammoudara Beach, Ammoudara Hotels, Ammoudara resorts, Blue Flag beaches, Civitel Creta Beach, Civitel Hotels & Resorts, Crete beaches, Crete hotels, Crete resorts, Heraklion hotels

MON COIN Studio Celebrates Contemporary Greek Ceramics

2021-05-25 by Phil Butler

Myrto Lykopoulou ceramics

Mon Coin Studio in downtown Athens is running the “Aegean” exhibition featuring over 100 Greek ceramic artists and workshops.

Tags: Alexandra Manousakis, Antonis Palles, Apostolidis Yannis, art studio, Greece art, Greece ceramics, Greek potters, Kallia Panopoulou, Maru Meleniou, Minoan ceramics, Minoan pottery, MON COIN, Mycenaeans, pottery

Does Greece Brand Even Need a Tourism Ministry?

2021-05-24 by Phil Butler

Greece travel poster

Greece’s tourism ministry had dozens of media outlets pimping the country’s reopening to tourists this month. But is the hype necessary?

Tags: Clayton Bartolo, Croatia tourism, Google, Google Travel Trends, Greece 2021, Greece coronavirus, Greece demand, Greece tourism, Greece tourism ministry, Greek City Times, Greek Reporter, Greek vacation, Harry Theoharis, Malta tourism, National Herald, Nikolina Brnjac, Peggy Antonakou, top travelers, tourism demand, Travel Trends, vacation in Greece

Weekend News Brief: Mixed Signals Prevail in Greece

2021-05-22 by Phil Butler

Greece’s economic experts, health experts, politicians, and business people seem to have different versions of the pandemic situation.

Tags: Bank of Greece, EODY, Greece, Greece Central Bank, Greece economy, Greece pandemic

Drive to Save University of Sheffield Archaeology Goes Viral

2021-05-22 by Phil Butler

Stonehenge

News the University of Sheffield may close down its archaeology school has shocked archaeologists and students worldwide.

Tags: Aegean culture, archaeology, Crete archaeology, Dr. Mike Parker Pearson, Jan Driessen, Knossos, Kostis Christakis, Mike Parker Pearson, Sheffield Archaeology, Stonehenge, UK archaeology, University of Sheffield

Greece In Prayer Mode Over 2021 Tourism Dice Roll

2021-05-21 by Phil Butler

Agia Pelagia Beach

The reality of Greece’s 2021 tourism restart begins to sink in. Chances are, this season will end up no better than 2020.

Tags: "Blue Freedom", Agia Pelagia, Agia Pelagia Beach, Almyra Seaside Food & Cocktails, Crete beaches, Fraport, Fraport AG, Fraport Greece, Grigoris Tasios, Harry Theoharis, Hellenic Federation of Hoteliers, hotels, Mitsotakis administration, SETE, TUI, Yiannis Retsos

Return to Margarites and Keramion On a Quest for Simple Perfection

2021-05-20 by Phil Butler

Giorgis Delamvelas

Our search for Minoan ceramic perfection takes us back to Margarites Village and the amazing workshop Keramion.

Tags: ceramics, crete, Crete olive oil, Crete pottery, Crete products, Galatas Palace, Giorgis Delamvelas, Keftiu, Keftiu Magazine, Keramion, Kostis Christakis, Margarites Village, Mariniki Delamvelas, Minnoan art, Minoan art, Minoan ceramics, Minoan pottery, pottery classes, pottery techniques

On the Ropes – TUI Must Have a Win in 2021 or Else

2021-05-18 by Phil Butler

Georgioupolis Beach

TUI stocks are really in the toilet now on news that fears about COVID-19 variants have dampened traveler enthusiasm.

Tags: amber destinations, Bank of Greece, Brit tourists, Greece hotels, Greece tourism, Greece travel, Green countries, Green destinations, Harry Theoharis, hotel bankruptcies, NPLs, TUI, TUI shares, TUI stocks, UK travelers

Koutsounari Traditional Cottages: A Tripadvisor Traveler’s Choice Gem

2021-05-15 by Phil Butler

Koutsounari Traditional Cottages

One of southern Crete’s most enchanting stays, Koutsounari Traditional Cottages was just named a 2021 Travelers Choice Award winner.

Tags: COVID precautions, COVID protocols, crete, Crete hotels, Crete tavernas, Crete travel, Crete villages, Eleni Nakou, EODY, Europa Nostra, Ierapetra, Koutsounari Traditional Cottages, pet friendly, pet friendly hotels, T. Zervas, Travelers Choice, Travelers Choice 2020, Travelers Choice 2021, V. Zerva-Vozineki, Visit Crete

The Keftiu Legend: When Peace Swayed All Creatures

2021-05-14 by Phil Butler

Keftiu gifts

Knowledge of the Keftiu, the place, and the people said to have been the “nail that held up the world,” may reveal the path humanity missed.

Tags: Amphitrite, animism, Apollo, Artemis, Atlantis, Britomartis, crete, Egyptian gods, Egyptian religion, Eileithyia, El Elyon, Greatest Kouros, Hathor, Hyksos sphinxes, Knossos, Minoan gods, Minoans, Palaekastro, Palaikastro Kouros, Potnia Theron, prehistory, Rhea, Tell el-Yahudiyeh, Thera, Zeus

Santorini Sky Presents Sky Dome: A Pimple of a Marketing Idea

2021-05-13 by Phil Butler

Pyrgos Village

A rough review of a new Santorini project that simply got too much positive press. Santorini Sky’s new Sky Dome is a blemish on the island.

Tags: Flora's House, New Hotels, Santorini, Santorini hotels, Santorini Sky, Sky Dome, Voreina Gallery Suites

The Most Important Travel News You Will Read Today

2021-05-13 by Phil Butler

Nikos Igoumenidis

The reopening of Greece to travelers has brought praise from economists and the WTTC, but on Crete leaders say the people have been let down.

Tags: Blue Freedom, COVID-19 Greece, Gloria Guevara, Greece, Greece coronavirus, Greece lockdown, Greece vacation, pandemic lockdowns, Summer 2021, tourism, WTTC

Greece Summer 2021: Let the Big Gamble Sink In

2021-05-12 by Phil Butler

Noxos beach

Greece’s Tourism Minister says Greece will be on the UK’s “Green List” soon, but will it be too late for that Greece summer to remember?

Tags: Amber Countries, American tourists, ForwardKeys, Greece hotels, Greek destinations, Harry Theoharis, New Democracy, tourism, TUI, TUI stocks, UK tourists, UK travelers, World Travel & Tourism Council

Greece’s Tourism Gamble Could Be the Biggest Bust in History

2021-05-10 by Phil Butler

Is Greece’s tourism restart about to be the biggest flop in history, or will last-minute bookings rescue the COVID stricken economy?

Tags: Europe tourism, Greece 2.0, Greece economy, Greece tourism, Greece vacation, Greece vaccine rollout, Greek hoteliers, TUI, vaccine schedule

Greece COVID Cases Spiking On the Eve of Tourism’s Reopening

2021-05-07 by Phil Butler

Harry Theoharis

On the eve of Greece reopening to tourists, COVID-19 cases have spiked to 3,421 in a 24 hour period. Is Athens moving too fast?

Tags: COVID vaccine, COVID-19 cases, COVID-19 Greece, Greece 2021, Greece restart, Greece tourism, Harry Theoharis, pandemic Greece, Peter Greenberg, restart travel, travel

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