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Check24 Data Reveals German Traveler Preference for Crete

2020-02-22 by Phil Butler

Elafonisi Beach

According to Check24, Crete island attracts the second-largest share of German travelers booking island destinations for 2020 so far.

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

2020 Carnival Season Culminates in Towns and Villages Across Crete

2020-02-21 by Argophilia Travel News

Carnival of Rethymno

All across Crete Island people will celebrate “Apokries” with colorful carnival events culminating on “Clean Monday.”

Tags: Crete festivals, Greece, Greek destinations, Greek Islands, Greek tourism news, Greek tourism statistics, Greek travel market, Hotels in Greece, Rethymno Carnival, Tourism in Greece, Travel to Greece

World Bank Says a Reunited Cyprus Would Boost Incomes by 7%

2020-02-18 by Argophilia Travel News

The incomparable seaside on Cyprus - via Pixabay

World Bank says reunification of Cyprus would see the income of both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriot increase by 7%.

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

Greece Tourism Eligible for Part of Huge European Union “Green Fund”

2020-02-11 by Argophilia Travel News

Paolo Gentiloni

According to news from the European Commission, forecasts for the Greek economy are likely to be revised upwards. This, highlighted news the commission is considering the country for eligibility for a part of a huge green fund for investing in sustainability. The EU Commissioner for Economy recently presented the Commission’s European “Green Deal,” an investment-growth […]

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

Greece a 2020 Favorite With Netherlands Travelers

2020-01-28 by Argophilia Travel News

Myrtos Beach

Greece recently won “Best Global Destination” at the Reisgraag Travel Awards, based on reviews by Dutch travelers booking 2020 trips.

Tags: Crete nightlife, Crete tourism, Crete tourists, Dutch travelers, Greece, Greece destinations, Greece tourism, Greek Isles, Holland travelers, Netherlands tourists

Aegean Airlines Breaks Previous Passenger Traffic Record

2020-01-17 by Argophilia Travel News

Aegean Airlines

AEGEAN set a new passenger traffic record with over 15 million passengers and a 7% increase in total passenger traffic for 2019.

Tags: Aegean, Aegean Airlines, airlines, Europe airlines, Greece, Greece flights, Greek airlines

Greece Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis Steers Toward Sustainability

2020-01-03 by Phil Butler

Greek flag

Just maybe, 2020 will be the year Greece sets sail for a sustainable economy and future. It all depends on Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis.

Tags: AirBnb, Bluehouse Capital, Constantine Michalos, Fais Group, Fraport, GNTO, Greece, Greece privatizations, Greece tourism, Greek hotels, Harry Theoharis, Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, HomeAway, Next Is Now, Next Is Now Forum, short-term rentals, Sustainable Greece, tourism minister

New Cold Front Sweeps Through Greece Thursday

2020-01-02 by Argophilia Travel News

Crete weather

The National Observatory in Athens is warning of severe weather for much of Greece beginning today with high winds offshore.

Tags: Crete snow, Crete storms, Crete weather, Crete winds, Greece, Greece snow, Greece weather conditions, Greece winter, Winter storms

Greece’s Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis to Welcome Visitors by 2022

2019-12-29 by Argophilia Travel News

Kasta Tomb mosaic

Greece’s Culture Ministry has announced the famous Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis is to welcome visitors from early 2022.

Tags: Alexander the Great, Amphipholis, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, Greece, Greece antiquities, Greece history, Greek archaeology, Hephaestion, KAS, Kasta Tomb, Lina Mendoni, Minister of Culture

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

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

Move to Greece’s Ikaria Island and You May Forget to Die

2019-11-25 by Phil Butler

Ikaria Island, Greece

Residents of Ikaria Island live a lot longer than people in other places. One of the reasons why is the honey the island is famous for.

Tags: Blue Zone, Greece, Greece islands, healthy destinations, healthy living, Ikaria Honey, Ikaria Island, island paradise, live longer, longevity, Mediterranean Diet

Greece’s Naxos Island May Have Been Inhabited 200,000 Years Ago

2019-11-24 by Phil Butler

SNAP

Neanderthals and early humans may have made it to the Greek island of Naxos, about 24 miles south of Mykonos, some 200,000 years ago.

Tags: Aegean archaeology, antiquity, archaeology, Greece, Greece anthropology, Greek history, Greek Isles, McMaster University, Mediterranean, Naxos Island, prehistory, Stelida Naxos, Stelida Naxos Archeological Project, Tristan Carter

Olympic Holidays to Become Greek Island Hopping Gurus

2019-11-08 by Phil Butler

Andros Island

Olympic Holidays is all set to launch guided group land tours and new island-hopping itineraries in Greece next year.

Tags: Andros, Clare Tobin, Explore Travel, Greece, Greek Isles, Inntravel, Karpathos, Olympic Holidays, Percy Jackson, Poros, Spetses, WTM, WTM 2019

Greece and China Agree to Increase Flights & Connectivity

2019-11-01 by Argophilia Travel News

Knossos Tourists

Greece and China have agreed to almost double the number of flights connecting the two countries. Now there will be 35 flights instead of 14.

Tags: CAAC, China flights, China tourists, Chinese tourists, Feng Zhenglin, Greece, Greece flights, Greece toursim, Greece-China, tours, Yiannis Kefalogiannis

Will the Greek Paradise Be Paved Over Like Florida Was?

2019-10-16 by Phil Butler

Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens

In Athens, tourism decision-makers are poised to turn Greece tourism into a Florida clone. Key leaders want investment to double visitors.

Tags: Bank of Greece, Brookings Institute, climate change, environmental concerns, Florida, Fulbright Scholar, Greece, Greece development, Greek tourism, NATO scholar, SETE, sustainable tourism, sustainable travel, Theodore Pelagidis, University of Piraeus, Yiannis Retsos

GNTO 2020 Strategy Focuses on Affluent Tourists and New Markets

2019-10-14 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Yacht docked in Greece

Greece will focus on new markets and affluent travelers according to the new GNTO tourism strategy for 2020.

Tags: affluent tourists, Dimitris Fragakis, EBRD, GNTO, Greece, Greece tourism, new markets, property tourism, tourism market, Trade, world tourism

The New ELIVI Hotel Is a Fairytale on Skiathos Island

2019-09-10 by Mihaela Lica Butler

Elivi Skiathos

Situated just 12 kilometers from the port at Skiathos, ELIVI SKIATHOS is a new five-star luxury resort at magnificent Koukounaries Bay.

Tags: ELIVI, ELIVI Skiathos, Greece, Greek hotels, Greek Isles, Koukounaries Bay, Skiathos hotels, Skiathos Island

July 2019 Cyprus Arrivals Beat All Past Tourism Records

2019-08-20 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Kyrenia

A recent Passengers Survey of the Statistical Service of Cyprus shows arrivals of tourists in Cyprus reached 550,971 for July 2019 or an increase of 2.1% year on year. July 2019 had the highest volume of tourist arrivals ever recorded in Cyprus in any specific month. In addition, from January – July 2019 arrivals of […]

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

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