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Greece Anticipates Brit and German Tourists for Summer of 2020

2020-05-12 by Phil Butler

Agia Roumeli Coast

Greece’s Minister of Tourism Harry Theoharis is courting German and British tourists to help rescue Summer 2020.

Tags: Agia Roumeli, Anemos Grand Luxury Resort, Bild am Sonntag, coronavirus Greece, crete, Crete resorts, Crete tourism, Eliros Mare Hotel, German tourists, Greece resorts, Greece tours, Harry Theoharis, Lefteris Vantarakis, Mythos Palace, South of Crete, Tourism Ministry

Heatwave Hits This Week for Crete and Southern Greece

2020-05-12 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Chania heat

Get ready, this week Greece and most of southern Europe expect the first summer heatwave to arrive via warm air masses from Africa.

Tags: Aegean heat, Aegean weather, crete, Crete heat wave, Crete temperatures, Greek summer, heat wave, summer heat, weather, weather alert

Crete Beaches Revert to Eden With Tourists Away in May

2020-05-12 by Phil Butler

Crete’s beaches are all but empty now. The pandemic has kept tourists away. Now, wonders of the world revert to Eden-like perfection.

Tags: Agiofárango, Amnissos Beach, Coronavirus, crete, Crete getaways, Crete Island, Crete vacation, Falasarna, Greece travel, Greek beaches, Karteros Beach, Preveli Beach, Seitan Limania, Vai Beach

Somewhere Over Kissamos

2020-05-11 by Phil Butler

Kissamos

A night sky UHD timelapse “Above Kissamos” film by The MultiMaker on May 1st brings to mind the eternal gift of the universe seen from Crete.

Tags: astronomy, crete, Crete islands, Elon Musk, Kissamos, Kissamos sky, Minoans, movies, night sky, Polyrrhenia, satellites, SpaceX, Starlink, Starlink satellites, stars

Region of Crete and “Diazoma” To Cooperate for Upgrading Minoan Palaces

2020-05-07 by Phil Butler

Knossos

The Region of Crete and the association “Diazoma” have just signed a memorandum of cooperation for promoting and upgrading the Minoan Palaces.

Tags: Costas Fasoulakis, crete, Crete attractions, Crete tours, cultural heritage, Diazoma, Fasoulakis Costas, heritage, Knossos, Kostas Fasoulakis, Kriti, Minoan Crete, Minoan palaces, Minoans, Region of Crete, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Stavros Benno

TUI Pushing Hard for Early Tourism Invasion of Greece

2020-05-06 by Phil Butler

Mykonos

This week in Greece, citizens are emerging from a weeks long lockdown. Meanwhile, TUI and other big travel businesses push ahead hard.

Tags: Balearic Islands, Coronavirus 2019, coronavirus Greece, COVID-19, crete, Cyprus, Fritz Joussen, Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, portugal, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, TUI, TUI Cruises, TUI profits, TUI stocks

Santorini Should Be Jealous of Saturday’s Crete Sunset

2020-05-03 by Phil Butler

Alison Hatzidakis

A Crete sunset symbolizes what Cretans hope will be the end of a pandemic, and a new beginning.

Tags: alfakapa__, Chania, Coronavirus, Cretan photographers, crete, Crete Instagram, Crete photography, Giorgos Trivizadakis, Greece, Heraklion, Heraklion sunset, Ierapetra, instagram, Instagram sunsets, instakissamos, Kissamos, lockdown, Manos Garefalakis, Platanias, Rethymno, v3silik7

Heraklion Anticipates Brighter Days As the Lockdown Lifted

2020-05-02 by Phil Butler

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On Monday, in accordance with regulations put in place by Greek authorities in Athens, many of the restrictions put in place to battle the coronavirus will be lifted. Here in Heraklion, citizens are eager to restart their normal routines, as is the everyone lockdowns have occurred. This morning, I could not help but notice how […]

Tags: coronavirus restrictions, COVID-19, COVID-19 Greece, crete, Greece coronavirus, Heraklion city, Heraklion residents

From Crete Island: An Indespensible Pandemic Lesson

2020-04-22 by Phil Butler

Ioannis Liapakis

Lessons from Crete during the time of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Traditional values, steadfastness, and duty should rule all our hearts.

Tags: Chef Grigoris Koudounas, Coronavirus 2019, coronavirus Greece, COVID-19, crete, Crete people, economic crisis, Greece, Greece COVID-19, Ioannis Liapakis, Minas Liapakis

Moderate Earthquake Hits This Morning Near Sitia on Crete

2020-04-22 by Argophilia Travel News

Sitia

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake rattled the far-east of Crete Island this morning. The center of the tremor was 8 km east of the port city of Sitia.

Tags: crete, Crete quake, earthquakes, Greece earthquakes, Ierapetra, Libyan Sea, National Observatory Athens, seismic, Sitia, tremors

Is Greece’s Tourism Future Drowning in a COVID-19 Tsunami?

2020-04-11 by Phil Butler

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Here’s a story of brilliant Greek swimmers caught in a brutal coronavirus pandemic’s undertow. It’s to wake up and witness a new way.

Tags: crete, Harry Theoharis, Incredible Crete, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Marketing Greece, SETE, Theoharis, Visit Greece, Yiannis Retsos

Greece’s Ministry of Tourism and Google Launch #greecefromhome

2020-04-05 by Phil Butler

Balos Lagoon

The Greek Tourism Ministry, in cooperation with Google, has launched the greecefromhome.com (#greecefromhome) site.

Tags: #greecefromhome, Aegean travel, Balos Lagoon, coronavirus outbreak, crete, distance travel, experiences, GNTO, Google, Greece adventure, Greece travel, Greek Isles, Greek tourism, Knossos, Limnos, Minoan Theater, Mykonos, sail Greece, stay at home travel, travel 2020

Cretan Spring Arrives: Instagram Reminds of a Post COVID-19 Paradise

2020-04-02 by Phil Butler

Agia Pelagia

With Crete in lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic, it’s a time to appreciate the paradise island we live on. Instagram provides hope.

Tags: Agioferago, beaches, Cretan Spring, crete, Crete beaches, Crete tourism, Dermatos Beach, Greece beaches, Heraklion, Karteros, Knossos Palace, Minoan Theater, Minoans, Preveli Beach, Rethymno, Spring, Vai Beach

Louis Hotels Adds Five-star Platanias Property to Crete Portfolio

2020-02-28 by Argophilia Travel News

Kladissos Beach

Louis Hotels has added the five-star Asterion Suites & Spa at Platanias to its portfolio of properties on Crete.

Tags: Asterion Suites & Spa, Chania hotels, crete, Crete hotels, hotel openings, Louis Hotels, Platanias Hotels, Platanias vacation

Crete to Serve as Backdrop for Massive Skoda Octavia Media Campaign

2020-02-23 by Phil Butler

2020 ŠKODA OCTAVIA RS iV

Crete is to be the backdrop for a huge visibility campaign for the all-new Skoda Octavia campaign starting in mid-March, 2020.

Tags: auto, auto world, automobiles, crete, Greece, Greece cars, Kosmocar, Kosmocar promotion, Kosmocar Skoda, media events, Skoda, Skoda cars, Skoda Octavia

The Last Priest of Poseidon

2020-02-14 by Phil Butler

The Course of Empire

For Plato the island of Atlantis was Poseidon’s domain. Here on Crete the gods are still at play.

Tags: Amnissos, ancient Crete, antiquity, crete, gods, Greek gods, Greek myths, Halicarnassus, Knossos, Korinthos, Minoan gods, Minoan myths, myths, Phaistos, Philistos, Poseidon, priests

A Trio of Earthquakes Hit Off Crete Island’s East Coast

2020-02-07 by Phil Butler

Crete earthquakes

A trio of Earthquakes shook Crete island early this morning. According to the reports, a 4.0 magnitude event offshore of Zakros was followed by two more events of increasing magnitude. The first of the tremors occurred at 02:16 38km ESE of Palaikastro. This 4.1 magnitude event was followed by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake slightly closer […]

Tags: crete, Crete quakes, Greece earthquakes, USGS

Crete Island: A Destination with a Celestial Potential

2020-02-01 by Phil Butler

Incredible Crete

A look at the tremendous potential of sustainable Crete hospitality and tourism with some of the industry’s most knowledgeable experts.

Tags: alternative tourism, crete, Crete hotels, Crete Region, Crete resorts, Crete rooms, Cyprus hotels, Dimitris Koutoulas, EyeWide Digital Marketing, Greece hotels, Hotel Association of Halkidiki, Kyriakos G. Kotsoglou, Magnuson Hotels, Minas Liapakis, Revenue Management, RevitUP, thomas cook, Thomas Magnuson, Tom Magnuson

An Empyrean Whisper: The Fate of the Mysterious Minoans

2020-01-24 by Phil Butler

Heraklion Archaeological Museum

Beyond the science, the religion and the spirit of the Minoans speak of an unimaginable Utopia lost, and the fate of the Minoans.

Tags: archaeology, crete, flood, Karnak, Minoan Civilization, Minoan Empire, Minoan fleet, Minoans, Tempest Stele, The Minoans, Thera, Thera eruption, Thera tsunami

More Rumors, Legends, and Myths of Crete

2020-01-02 by Phil Butler

Snake Goddess - Heraklion Achaeological Museum

One of the most interesting legends of Greece is the story of the daughter of one of the Cretan Curetes (Korybantes), that of Crete (Cres).

Tags: Ages of Man, Ammon, Ammon Ra, Bronze Age, Cinaethon of Sparta, Cres, crete, Eteocretans, Idaea, Kouretes, Kretan, meliae, Minoans, Rhea, Silver Age, Talos, Zeus

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