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Crete Island a Top-5 Travelers Choice Destination for 2020

Phil Butler

Crete, the legendary birthplace of the Greek god Zeus, is a top-five pick by Tripadvisor users for 2020. The island is a world within itself.

5 years ago

The Tourism Story Nobody in Tourism Wants to Tell the World

Phil Butler

Gambling. This is what the world’s top leaders are up to where the coronavirus pandemic is concerned. Here’s a look at some facts.

5 years ago

Greece, the EU, and All Our Leaders Seem Punchdrunk Over COVID

Phil Butler

Greece’s Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis and most of Europe’s leadership seem gobsmacked by the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

5 years ago

Why Ernst & Young and Capital Link Get Greece All “COVID” Wrong

Phil Butler

Ernst & Young’s (EY) recent Attractiveness Survey for 2020 revealed Greece as a favorable invesment market. But, not so fast!

5 years ago

Ocean Rebellion Launches Protests Against Cruise Industry

Phil Butler

Ocean Rebellion just launched a night-time protest in Weymouth in order to reveal the “dirty truth of the cruise shipping industry”.

5 years ago

Members of TUI’s Mein Schiff 6 Crew Test Positive for COVID-19

Phil Butler

Greek authorities say 12 crew members TUI Cruises’ Mein Schiff 6 carrying more than 1,500 passengers, have tested positive for COVID-19.

5 years ago

COVID-19 Second Wave Nixes Predicted Economic Rebound

Phil Butler

As the ECDC predicts a rising COVID-19 curve, Europe economies stand poised to suffer double-dip recession.

5 years ago

A Weekend In the Heart of Crete at Delina Mountain Resort

Phil Butler

A weekend at the famous Anogia Village and Delina Mountain Resort, as Fall comes to the mountains of Crete Island.

5 years ago

Heraklion MP Nikos Igoumenidis Reexamines Knossos UNESCO Bid

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Heraklion MP Nikos Igoumenidis pursues definate answers from Culture Minnister Mendoni on the Knossos UNESCO candidacy.

5 years ago

Tourism Profits and Surfing the Humongous COVID Second Wave

Phil Butler

Greek authorities have reported 453 new coronavirus cases, which is the highest single-day rise since the end of lockdown. Meanwhile, corporate interests sail full speed a course into the unknown.

5 years ago

TUI and Others Seem Determined to Cram Tourists Down the Throats of Greeks

Phil Butler

TUI announces Greece is the company’s top destination now. Meanwhile, Greece plans to boost tourists in midst of COVID resurgence.

5 years ago

The Greece Tourism Crisis: First Good, Then Bad, Now Worse

Phil Butler

Greece’s drive to promote tourism using the status quo, it is not going to work. Everything put forward from the tourism ministry and the rest of the current administration is about going back and appearing to go forward.

5 years ago

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Stories of Interest

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Allergy Season Starts Early

2026-03-16 By Victoria Udrea

Spring allergy season is starting early in Greece. Doctors advise preparing before symptoms begin, as pollen levels rise with warmer weather.

Mastabas green space

New Green Space Under Construction in Mastabas

2026-03-16 By Arthur Butler

Works continue on a new green space in Mastabas, Heraklion. Officials say no parking spaces will be lost, a statement drivers will read twice.

Heraklion Weekly Update

Heraklion Projects Update

2026-03-15 By Iorgos Pappas

Heraklion announces progress on VOAK works, parking plans, road repairs, and waste policy, as the city continues its slow battle with traffic, infrastructure, and reality.

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Malevizi Joins RETES Project to Prepare Tourism for Climate Risks

2026-03-15 By Iorgos Pappas

Malevizi joins the EU RETES project to improve tourism resilience to climate change through training, cooperation, and workshops.

Crete's Culture Ministry is restoring the old watermill at Gortyn and turning it into an open museum, proving that even obvious ideas can take decades to come to fruition.

Historic Watermill at Gortyn Back on the Map

2026-03-15 By Arthur Butler

Crete’s Culture Ministry is restoring the old watermill at Gortyn and turning it into an open museum, proving that even obvious ideas can take decades to come to fruition.

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