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Tourism Minister Kikilias Says Greece Accommodations Occupancy at 63%

2021-09-30 by Argophilia Travel News

Vassilis Kikilias

Greece’s Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias says the occupancy rate of tourist accommodation and hotels reached 63 percent recently.

Tags: Greece, Greece tourism, Greek destinations, Greek Islands, Greek tourism news, Greek tourism report, Greek tourism statistics, Greek travel market, Hotels in Greece, Jet2, Tourism in Greece, Travel to Greece, Vassilis Kikilias

Green Fund Website for Greece Protected Areas Goes Live

2021-09-28 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Greece nature

A new website by Green Fund and Goulandris Museum, www.visitgreeknature.gr, launches to showcase Greece’s nature reserves.

Tags: alt tourism, Goulandris Museum of Natural History, Greece tourism, Hellenic Center for Habitats - Wetlands, Nature site, VisitGreekNature

ETC Report Reveals Europeans Still Eager to Travel to Greece

2021-09-27 by Argophilia Travel News

The windmills in Mykonos, Greece

According to a report last week from the European Travel Commission (ETC), Greece is among 10 bucket list destinations for Europeans.

Tags: COVID tourism, COVID-19 Greece, ETC, European traveler, Greece tourism, Greece travel

GNTO’s Fragakis Says 2021 Goals Met – Sustainability Ahead

2021-09-22 by Phil Butler

Dimitris Fragakis

GNTO boss Dimitris Fragakis says Greece has achieved its goals set for tourism in 2021.

Tags: 85th Thessaloniki International Fair, Dimitris Fragakis, GNTO, Greece sustainability, Greece tourism, Greece travel, Tourism Ministry

Greece’s Hoteliers Say Tourism Numbers May Reach Half of 2019 Levels

2021-09-08 by Argophilia Travel News

American tourist at Oia village

Hellenic Hoteliers Federation President Grigoris Tasios said this week foreign arrivals to Greece are approaching half of 2019 numbers.

Tags: Greece 2021, Greece tourism, Greece tourists, Greek hotels, Grigoris Tasios, Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, SETE

Greece’s New Tourism Minister Exudes Confidence – What’s New?

2021-09-08 by Phil Butler

Vassilis Kikilias

Greece’s new Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias says USA tourists will still come to the county despite a waning market demand.

Tags: EODY, Greece, Greece COVID-19, Greece pandemic, Greece tourism, Greek destinations, Greek Islands, Greek tourism news, Greek tourism report, Greek tourism statistics, Greek travel market, Hotels in Greece, Tourism in Greece, tourism minister, Travel to Greece, Vassilis Kikilias

Greece Records 1,765 New Covid-19 Cases in Past 24 Hours

2021-09-06 by Argophilia Travel News

EODY logo

Greece recorded 1,765 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours according to a report from the National Public Health Organization .

Tags: COVID vaccine, COVID-19 Greece, EODY, Greece COVID, Greece tourism, Mykonos

Greece’s Tourism Boss Theoharis Is Gone: But Why?

2021-09-04 by Phil Butler

Peter Fankhauser with Greek Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis

As Harry Theoharis exits his position as Greece’s Minister of Tourism the question is, “Why was he sacked at this crucial juncture?”

Tags: Evangelos Apostolakis, Greece, Greece tourism, Greek officials, Harry Theoharis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Mitsotakis administration

Greece Registers Another 2,871 COVID Infections

2021-09-02 by Argophilia Travel News

Stop Covid

Greek officlas have announced another 2,871 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours. Another 47 fatalities were also reported.

Tags: EODY, EODY report, Greece COVID-19, Greece flights, Greece tourism, Greece vaccine rollout, pandemic Greece

Mitsotakis Sacks Tourism, Public Order, and Other Cabinet Ministers

2021-08-31 by Phil Butler

Vasilis Kikilias

In a cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, Vassilis Kikilias was appointed as the new tourism minister for Greece, replacing Harry Theoharis.

Tags: COVID-19 Greece, Greece hotels, Greece PM, Greece tourism, Greece wildfires, Greek cabinet, Harry Theoharis, Mitsotakis administration, New Democracy, Vassilis Kikilias

Greece’s All Powerful Tourism and Hospitality Leaders to Resurrect Evia

2021-08-30 by Phil Butler

Elevated Theoharis

With wide swaths of Greece burnt to a crisp, and COVID still rampaging across the country, some Greek leaders seem to think they are gods.

Tags: Agioi Taxiarches Church, Alexandros Vassilikos, Athens protests, Evia Island, Evia wildfires, Fr. Ioannis Siafleki, global warming, Greece COVID-19, Greece tourism, Greece wildfires, Grigoris Tasios, Harry Theoharis, Kokkinomilia, tourism

Greek Officials Report 3,538 New COVID Cases With 235 in Crete

2021-08-27 by Argophilia Travel News

EODY logo

Greek officials from the National Public Health Organization (EODY) have confirmed 3,538 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours.

Tags: COVID deaths, COVID-19 cases, EODY, EODY report, Greece COVID-19, Greece tourism, pandemic Greece, pandemic news, vaccination rate

Greeks – Get Vaccinated Now, Not for the Schmuck Politicians, for All of Us

2021-08-25 by Phil Butler

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Greeks, get vaccinated. Not for the Schmuck Politicians who have fumbled on COVID. For all of us subject to new more deadly variants.

Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, coronavirus variants, COVID vaccine, delta plus, EODY, Greece, Greece coronavirus, Greece COVID-19, Greece tourism, Greece wildfires, Harry Theoharis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Turkey virus, vaccines

Read This If You Care About the Greece of Tomorrow

2021-08-21 by Phil Butler

Crete shores

If the Greece of tomorrow is to retain the same touristic value it enjoys today, a more sustainable model must be created.

Tags: EplerWood International, Greece, Greece sustainability, Greece tourism, Greece travel, ISTI, Kerten Hospitality, Marloes Knippenberg, Megan Epler Wood, Minoan Group, pandemic, pandemic developments, Sustainable Greece, WTP, WTS

Greeks to Test Passengers From 13 Countries for COVID-19

2021-08-20 by Phil Butler

Paros Airport

According to a Civil Aviation Service (CAS) report, passengers who arrive in Greece from 13 countries must now submit to COVID testing.

Tags: coronavirus Greece, COVID precautions, COVID testing, Crete COVID, Greece COVID-19, Greece pandemic, Greece passengers, Greece tourism, Greece vaccines, Mykonos, Mykonos COVID-19, Mykonos parties, Rethymno COVID, Travel to Greece

Greek Officials Roll “COVID Craps” Calling It a Tourism Bet Won

2021-08-16 by Phil Butler

Mitsotakis craps

Greece’s leaders say the desperate drive to reboot Greece tourism has nothing with spiking COVID-19 . They say their dice roll is winners.

Tags: COVID-19 cases, EODY report, Greece COVID-19, Greece leaders, Greece pandemic, Greece tourism, Greece vaccine rollout, Greece vaccines, Harry Theoharis, Mitsotakis administration

U.S. Embassy in Greece Issues Level 4 Travel Warning

2021-08-14 by Phil Butler

U.S. Embassy Athens

The U.S. Department of State has reassessed and reissued the Travel Advisory for Greece, raising it to Level 4 – Do Not Travel.

Tags: American tourists, American travelers, CDC, COVID-19 Greece, Greece tourism, Level 4 Travel Warning, Travel Advisory for Greece, Travel to Greece, U.S. Mission Greece, US Embassy Greece

Armageddon 2021: Welcome to Greece

2021-08-06 by Phil Butler

Armageddon

COVID, the waves, the Delta variant, heat waves, wildfires, mediocre leaders, Greece is set for Armageddon.

Tags: climate disaster, conservation, coronavirus Greece, coronovirus, Delta variant, EODY, global warming, Greece, Greece COVID-19, Greece tourism, Greece wildfires, Greta Thunberg, heatwaves, Hellenic National Meteorological Service, HNMS, tourism, wildfires

U.S. Officials at the CDC Put Greece at “Level 4” for COVID-19

2021-08-05 by Phil Butler

New COVID rules

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta has added Greece to Level 4 warning list.

Tags: CDC, COVID variants, COVID warnings, COVID-19 cases, COVID-19 Greece, EODY report, Greece tourism, Level 4, Mykonos, Paros Island, travel advisory, travel warning

Greek Summer 2021 Will Be in Chaos Unless COVID Is Controlled

2021-07-31 by Argophilia Travel News

Heathrow lines

Over the past 24 hours, Greece officials registered 2.845 new cases of COVID-19. Greece seems on the brink of tourism chaos.

Tags: amber list, COVID-19 Greece, crete, Greece tourism, iOS, Mykonos, pandemic response, red countries, Santorini, travel bans, UK travelers, vaccination rate

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