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TUI FutureShapers Greece: A Tourism Indoctrinization “Konzept”

2024-12-05 by Phil Butler

Prora Resort

According to news from the TUI Care Foundation, Thomas Ellerbeck, the movement’s president, and Melina Taprantzi, founder of Wise Greece (Fun, Food, and Social Good), a new breed of Greek tourism specialists will be born. According to TUI, the FutureShapers Greece initiative will provide education, mentoring, and plenty of opportunity for those willing to toe […]

Greek Decision-makers Get a “Whiff” of Digital Prowess

2024-12-02 by Phil Butler

Koules Fortress Fart

The following is a test of artificial intelligence capability prompted by an article by Argophila Editor in Chief, Mihaela Butler. The article in question, “Greek Tourism Ministry Plans Another Pile of Digital Projects” is an objective assessment of the 5th Regional Tourism Council session, chaired by Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni.  The session was focused in […]

Greece and Other Nations Frozen Planning for Climate Change

2024-12-01 by Phil Butler

Climate change

From the United Nations COP29 climate summit in Baku, we find the core of all the issues facing humanity, not only hypertourism. With air pollution choking and poisoning their people back home, Balkan nations’ leaders blame everyone and everything but their mismanagement. The summit was about the $1 trillion per year developed countries sought to […]

Kathimerini’s “Reimagine Tourism” Has Visionary Blind Spots

2024-11-29 by Phil Butler

A new initiative by Kathimerini claims to Reimagine Tourism while issues of hypertourism seem to take a back burner to growth.

A new initiative by Kathimerini claims to Reimagine Tourism while issues of hypertourism seem to take a back burner to growth.

Why Majorca’s Tourism Board Hates Terms Like Hypertourism and Neo-tourism

2024-11-25 by Phil Butler

Mallorca protests

The time of the marketing magicians is at hand. In every sphere of business and across the broadest horizon of misinformation, the cancer that is corporate/governmental collusion consumes us all. In tourism, the propaganda is layered so thick it would take a nuclear blast to dig up any truth. And now new words like hypertourism […]

Bean Counters Kill the Greek Hospitality Goose

2024-11-24 by Phil Butler

Bean counters from hell

News that big multinational hotel chains are increasing their activity in Greece is a blessing for some and a curse for many others. As travelers, you are not privy to the forces that drive you to a hotel or destination or the legitimate value you get once you arrive. Unless you’ve been in the PR […]

Crete’s Overbosses Target the Displacement of Traditional Cretan Beekeeping

2024-11-22 by Phil Butler

Lassithi Thyme Bee

The mission seems clear now. Through their policy puppets in office, investors in Crete intend to make the island into a barren rock for producing energy and endless all-inclusive playgrounds. Their method and their planning ends up destroying one of Greece’s greatest treasures. How so, you ask? As it turns out, huge resorts with half […]

Ancient Inscription in Türkiye Identifies Mother Goddess

2024-11-20 by Phil Butler

Arslan Kaya Monument

An ancient inscription at Türkiye’s Arsian Kaya (lion rock) monument has finally been deciphered. Researcher Dr. Mark Munn at Penn State University says the Iron Age texts refer to a goddess known as “Mother.”  The monument, dating from 1200 to 600 BCE, is decorated with lions and sphinxes. However, the inscription on the monument has […]

Researchers Study Ancient Shipwrecks Off Kasos Island

2024-11-16 by Phil Butler

Kasos Island

In collaboration with the Greek Ministry of Culture, new research by the National Hellenic Research Foundation has identified shipwrecks and other important ancient finds during a survey of the marine area around the Greek island of Kasos. According to the news from the Culture Ministry, the discoveries made as part of the “Kasos Maritime Archaeological […]

Crete Celebrates Wine Tourism Day 2024 Tomorrow

2024-11-09 by Phil Butler

Crete Celebrates Wine Tourism Day 2024 Tomorrow

The Wine Roads of Greece wineries, plus hundreds of other wineries in Europe, will participate in World Wine Tourism Day on November 10th.

Crete: From Paradise to Garbage Dump

2024-11-06 by Phil Butler

Apokoronas Garbage

Crete Island’s garbage dump crisis in Apokoronas demonstrates how inadequate waste disposal turns paradise into hazard.

Faultline Mini Documentary Highlights Crete’s Developmental Crisis [Video]

2024-11-02 by Phil Butler

Andy Burgess Filmmaker

Crete Island is being systematically transformed into another case of lost history, hope, and identity. Since the 1960s, when the Greek government first began marketing tourism, the industry has reoriented tens of thousands of people and ruined countless villages and communities. The heart of what made Crete so special, its urban landscape and dear traditions, […]

Unique Places On Our Planet – Patagonia in Latin America

2024-10-29 by Phil Butler

Torres Del Paine

Few destinations in the world are as unique and awe-inspiring as the southern tip of the South American continent. The Chilean and Argentinian regions of Patagonia are nothing short of breathtaking. Today, we decided to share a few glimpses and information about this stunning region via Instagram. Chile’s most famous national park, Torres del Pain, […]

South Aegean Region/TUI Conjure Sustainability Mark for Hotels

2024-10-28 by Phil Butler

Tourists stuffed in front of a destination site

The South Aegean Region commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to prepare a plan to create guidelines for implementing the certification for the hotel industry related to “The Rhodes Co-Lab Project” for the Dodecanese Regional Unit. The effort, which is a project for the benefit of TUI, is just the latest effort to greenwash the public and the […]

Cry “Oxi!” and Confront TUI’s Tourism Stormtroopers

2024-10-27 by Phil Butler

TUI stormtroopers

In a best case, TUI CEO Sebastian Ebel (left) will eventually get a big NO! from industry leaders like Alexandros Vassilikos (right)

Sitia Group Stands Up to BAPE and Industrial RES

2024-10-25 by Phil Butler

Itanos

In Sitia, agencies, collectives, unions, local communities, and cultural associates will band together to protect Easten Crete from pseudo-RES opportunists. On Wednesday 11/13/2024 at 18.00 at Polykentro. (Spiritual Center of the Municipality of Sitia) an open meeting will address all concerns.  A congress of stakeholders is being organized to fight against the Baltic Energy Conservation Agency […]

Oxi Day: A Proud Moment in Greek History

2024-10-24 by Phil Butler

On the 28th of October, all Greeks will once again celebrate the moment the Prime Minister of Greece, Ioannis Metaxas, denied the demands of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. When the Axis powers demanded the Greeks capitulate, Metaxas “Alors, c’est la gueree!” or “Then it is War!” That moment in 1940 when the whole world seemed […]

Discover Greece’s Unbelievable Antikythera Island

2024-10-24 by Phil Butler

Antikythera wonders

The island, best known for the offshore discovery of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, is one of Greece’s most remote, engaging, and least visited destinations. The rocky shores and high sea cliffs of the Island are foreboding, but the unimaginable solitude and peace of this lost paradise are welcoming for those in search of thoughtless abandon. This […]

Heraklion Hosts World Ju-Jitsu Championships

2024-10-23 by Phil Butler

Jiu-Jitsu International

For the next 13 days, Heraklion, Crete will be centre stage for all practitioners of the art of Ju-Jitsu. The World championships for all age categories, including: men’s, women’s, and Youth, teenagers, and juniors. Boys – Girls, ParaZiou Jitsu and the Pampa Women’s World Cup will be held from October 23 to November 4 at […]

Crete’s Voulisma Beach a Top Ten for Bluest Waters in Europe

2024-10-19 by Phil Butler

Voulisma Beach

According to villa rental company CV Villas, Greece has five of Europe’s top ten bluest waters, backed by science. A recent investigation revealed that two of these magnificent beaches are in Crete.  Researchers compiled a list of the most popular and beautiful beaches. They then performed a color analysis by taking unedited images from Google […]

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