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GuruWalk Snags €1 Million Seed Funding to Serve ‘Free Walking Tours’

2020-01-02 by Phil Butler

GuruWalk

Spanish startup GuruWalk announces obtaining €1 million in seed funding from SeedRocket and other investors to jumpstart free tours.

Tags: city tours, free tours, GuruWalk, startups, tourism, tourism startups, tours, travel startups, travel tech, travel technology

Cyprus Tourism Season Starts Badly With ‘boycott tourism’ campaign.

2020-01-01 by Phil Butler

Nissi Beach

A British teenager reportedly gang-raped in Ayia Napa, Cyprus is now at the center of a campaign urging tourists to boycott the island.

Tags: #BoycottCyprus, Ayia Napa, Ayia Napa Cyprus, Ayia Napa hotel, Ayia Napa hotels, Ayia Napa rape, Cyprus gang rape, Cyprus rape, Cyprus tourism, Israeli gang rapists, Israeli rapists

Rostec Begins Serial Production of MC-21 Airliners in 2020

2019-12-27 by Phil Butler

MC-21

Russia’s Rostec corporation announces serial commercial production of the new MC-21 passenger jets will begin in 2020.

Tags: aircraft, aircraft design, aircraft fleet, MC-21 aircraft, Rostec, Russia airplanes, russia flights, Russian aircraft manufacture, Russian airlines, UAC

Archaeologists Unearth Two More Magnificent Bronze Age Tombs at Pylos

2019-12-18 by Phil Butler

Tholos Tomb VI

Archaeologists have discovered two new monumental royal tombs dating from 3,500 years ago at the site of the ancient city of Pylos.

Tags: Agamemnon, Ancient Greece, Classics, Greece, Greek history, Griffon Warrior, Jack L. Davis, Minoan seals, Mycenaean tombs, Mycenaeans, Pylos, Sharon R. Stocker, Troy, University of Cincinnati

What About a Unique Ski Mountaineering Experience on Crete?

2019-12-17 by Phil Butler

NYNAFIT Team on Crete

Winter on Crete is a unique experience, especially if you’re into ski mountaineering unique and pristine wilderness.

Tags: Alpine Crete, Crete mountaineering, Crete skiing, Crete snowboarding, Crete winter, DYNAFIT, Heraklion Mountaineering Club, Mountaineering Club of Heraklion, ski Crete, ski mountaineering

5 More Amazing Crete Gorges Nature Lovers Must Trek

2019-12-16 by Phil Butler

Richtis Waterfall

Crete is an unbelievable landscape cut by canyons and gorges for millions of years. The topography of the island is unique in that these rifts in the bedrock of the island form create hundreds of individual pockets of natural bounty. The island is even called the “land of gorges” since more than 400 canyons carve […]

Tags: alternative Crete, alternative travel, Crete activities, Crete beaches, Crete destinations, Crete gorges, Crete hiking, Crete nature, Crete outback, Crete trips, Hidden Crete

Hidden Crete: Secrets of the Gorge of Saints and Agiofarago

2019-12-14 by Phil Butler

Agiofarago Gorge

Agiofarago Gorge, is an amazing canyon in the south of Heraklion Prefecture tourists who visit the island paradise seldom know exists.

Tags: Agiofarago, Agiofarago Beach, Agiofarago Gorge, Cretan Beaches, Crete beaches, Crete caves, Crete destinations, Crete gorges, Crete Island, Crete landmarks, Crete myths, Crete roads, Crete secrets, Gorge of Saints, Heraklion prefecture, Heraklion secrets, Hidden Crete, matala, Odigitria Monastery, rituals, Sivas, Vourvoulitis Lake

A View on Dolphin Capital Plans for Greece’s First Luxury Floating Hotel

2019-12-13 by Phil Butler

Azzam Superyacht

According to news from GTP, Dolphin Capital Partners (Dolphin), hospitality real estate investors and developers just revealed plans to offer a luxury experience at sea with the launch of the first floating hotel in Greece. While many are heralding the Dolphin’s entrepreneurial spirit and innovation, the question of sustainable tourism practice looms large. The news […]

Tags: Amanzoe Resort, cruise news, Dolphin Capital, Dolphin Capital Investors (DCI), Greece cruising, Greece sustainable, Kilada Hills Golf Resort, Miltos Kambourides, Santorini sustainability, sustainable tourism

19 More Instagram Reasons for Loving Crete Island

2019-12-12 by Phil Butler

Elafonisi Beach

Crete Island. If you’ve been here, you want to come back. Maybe forever, like me. Friends ask me all the time “Why Crete?” Well, for a South Carolina sandlapper of the 60s like me, there are 1000 reasons. I tend to share a lot of them here on Argo Travel News. Today, I thought some […]

Tags: crete, Crete images, Crete Instagrams, Crete Island, Crete shares, Crete vacation, CreteGrams, Greece, Greece Instagrams, images of Crete

WWF Calls for Action to Save the Mediterranean Sea

2019-12-12 by Phil Butler

WWF Graphic

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has now called for countries to adhere to the agreements of its Mediterannean Sea Initiative.

Tags: ecology, Greece, Marine Protected Area, Mediterranean, Mediterranean islands, sustainability, Turkey, WWF, WWF initiative, WWF Marine Protected Area

5.4 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Off Crete’s Far Eastern Edge

2019-12-11 by Phil Butler

Crete earthquake

Early Wednesday morning, a magnitude 5.4 earthquake jolted Crete island, but no damage or injuries have been reported.

Tags: Crete earthquake, earthquake, Earthquake report, Greece earthquakes, Palaikastro, Palaikastro earthquake, Sitia, USGS

Riddle of the Throne of Knossos: A Codec for Good and Evil

2019-12-10 by Phil Butler

The Giants

What you are about to read will hopefully shed new light on Knossos and those ancient inhabitants of Crete known as the Minoans.

Tags: Aloades Giants, Arthur Evans, Ashmolean Museum of Oxford, Cave of Zeus, Cronus, Elias Ashmole, Emile Gillerons, Horn of Viannos, Ioannis Asnastasakis, Knossos, Knossos Palace, Knossos Throne, Lassithi Plateau, Minoan Civilization, Minoan Crete, Piet De Jong, Poseidon, Zeus

Hays Travel Snaps Up All Thomas Cook Shops in Time for Christmas

2019-12-09 by Phil Butler

Hays Travel Founders

Hayes Travel has bought up all 555 Thomas Cook shops within the UK comes as great news to the fallen travel company’s employees.

Tags: Hays Travel, Hays Travel buyout, Hays Travel shops, Hays Travel UK, Irene Hays, John Hays, thomas cook, Thomas Cook Group, tours, travel

Airline Travel Pains Get Relief From Hitachi Vantana AI

2019-12-09 by Phil Butler

Hitachi NEXT 2019

Airport anxiety just got a dose of artificial intelligence (AI) from Hitachi Vantana. For those who suffer from the stress of the herds of fellow travelers in airports during the holidays, Hitachi Vantana may solve a lot of that upset. The getting to the airport on time, the check-in, bag weigh-in, and the damnable TSA, […]

Tags: 3D, AI, airport technology, Hitachi Next 2019, Hitachi Vantana, Jonathan Martin, Justin Bean, LiDAR, LVI

Cities on Volcanoes 11 Conference Comes to Heraklion May 2020

2019-12-08 by Phil Butler

Cities on Volcanoes 11

Coming up May 23rd through 27th of 2020, the Cities on Volcanoes 11 brings the world’s top volcanologists to Greece for the first time. The conferences and workshops of “Volcanoes and Society: environment, health, and hazards” will welcome many of the world’s foremost experts to Heraklion, Crete. Organized by the International Association of Volcanology Cities, […]

Tags: Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Bronze Age Cities and the Volcano of Thera", Cities on Volcanoes, Cities on Volcanoes 11, Crete Natural History Museum, Crete University, Dr. Jan Driessen, IAVCEI, International Association of Volcanology Cities, Minoan Crete, Santorini, Thera, Thera eruption, Volcanoes

Greece’s Tourism Geniuses: Still Swimming Upstream

2019-12-08 by Phil Butler

Greek beach resort

The Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) and other tourism geniuses in Greece continue losing their collective minds over Airbnb’s successes.

Tags: AirBnb, Crete rentals, Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, HomeAway, hotels, INSETE, rental market, Richard Branson, SETE, short-term rentals, tourism, vacation rentals

Possible Forgotten El Greco Masterpiece Discovered In a Church on Crete

2019-12-08 by Phil Butler

El Greco icon

A religious icon in a small church outside Chania is believed to be an early work of master painter El Greco.

Tags: artists, Crete artist, El Greco, El Greco painting, El Greco works, Fodele, religious icons, Tsivaras

Discover Language the Fun Way at Greek LOL Summer Camp 2020

2019-12-08 by Phil Butler

Greek LOL Camp

The Greek LOL Summer Camp is a language and social developmental program wrapped in a fun camp environment in an ideal place.

Tags: camps, Greece attractions, Greece excursions, Greek language, Greek LOL, Greek LOL Lessons Online, Greek LOL Summer Camp, kids activities, Learn Greek, learn Greek online, online learning, summer camp, Visit Greece

Greek Tourism Minister Theoharis Sees Growth on 2020 Horizon

2019-12-05 by Phil Butler

Pylos Marina

Greece’s Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis said this week he expects to see positive signs for 2020 given 2019 revenue and Greece’s appeal to new source markets.

Tags: cruising Greece, Greece marinas, Greece tourism, Harry Theoharis, Itea Marina, Kalamata Pylos, Nafplio, Tourism Greece, yachting

The Best Crete Hotels For Business Travelers In 2020

2019-12-05 by Phil Butler

While doing business on Crete can be tough with so many distractions, we know this selection of the island’s best will help 2020 . travelers

Tags: best Crete hotels, business breaks, business hotels, Business on Crete, business traveller, Casa Delfino Hotel & Spa, Crete hotels, Crete resorts, Elounda Bay Palace, GDM Megaron Hotel, Greek hotels, Heraklion hotels, Megaron Hotel, Ostria Resort & Spa, Pepi Boutique Hotel, resorts, Sitia Beach Hotel

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