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Greece reopening

Greece Tourism News Brief: COVID Is Still All the News That Matters

2021-04-27 by Phil Butler

WTTC

The COVID-19 pandemic still dominates every faces of travel news in Greece and worldwide. Here are Greek highlights.

Tags: Cyprus, Cyprus tourism, Greece reopening, Harry Theoharis, island vaccine program, Mitsotakis administration, pandemic Greece, Syriza, tourism 2021, vaccines, WTTC

Greece Opens Promachonas and Nymphaea Border Crossings

2021-04-20 by Argophilia Travel News

Border crossing

Greece has reopened of Bulgaria-Greece road border crossing at Promachonas and Nymphaea, after a ministerial decision went into effect.

Tags: Bulgaria tourists, Bulgaria-Greece Border Point, Greece borders, Greece reopening, Greece travel, Nymphaea, PLF Form, Promachonas, rapid tests

Greek Disease Experts Mull Over Lockdown Reopenings

2021-03-27 by Argophilia Travel News

Mitsotakis

Greece’s Health Ministry’s committee of experts is now considering which activities will restart in the country when new cases of COVID begin to decline.

Tags: COVID-19 Greece, COVID-19 response, Greece lockdown, Greece reopening, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, pandemic Greece, Vana Papaevaggelou

Retail Stores Selling Seasonal Items to Open in Greece December 7th

2020-12-04 by Argophilia Travel News

Christmas in Greece

This coming Monday, December 7, retail stores that trade exclusively in seasonal Christmas goods will be permitted to open.

Tags: Greece, Greece Christmans, Greece lockdown, Greece reopening, Greece retail, Greece stores

Greece’s Using “Crystal Ball” Economics to Justify Tourism Reopening

2020-09-07 by Phil Butler

Eye of Horace

Last week Greece’s tourism minister the country’s reopening of the country’s tourism market at a critical moment during a pandemic.

Tags: Greece 2020, Greece reopening, Greece tourism, Greece tourism PR, Harry Theoharis, tourism campaign, Tourism Minister Theoharis

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