Tourists from Eastern Europe are heading en masse to resorts in Greece this summer season, Greek media reported recently.
Bulgarians, whose entry into the EU in 2007, allowed them to discover the Chalkidiki Peninsula, prefer the hotels in the northern part of the country, tour operators told the daily newspaper Kathimerini.
This trend has been consistent over […]
Last Saturday dozens of residents & fishermen blocked the port of Ouranoupolis, gateway to Mount Athos on the peninsula of Halkidiki, to protest government plans to restrict activity in the European Union-protected zone.
Protesters lined up 30 boats along the dock to obstruct vessels taking monks to and from Mount Athos, complaining that the planned measures […]
A special ceremony will be held in downtown Thessaloniki’s Aristotelous Square on March 27 to welcome the Olympic Flame “Beijing 2008″ within the framework of a torch relay launched at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, southern Greece, several months before the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games in the host country.
A […]
VIENNA - As was the case last year, Greece this year again is among the top three most popular holiday destinations for Austrians, according to a poll conducted by the Tourism Research Institute, the results of which were published on Friday.
The countries ahead of Greece are Italy and Croatia.
In 2007, one in five Austrians spent […]
Very low temperatures and icy conditions in northern Greece were the main weather characteristics on Wednesday. The provincial road (Aghios Vasilios-Chortiatis) in Thessaloniki remains closed for precautionary reasons after the snowfall at New Year’s Eve.
Cars using the provincial roads in the areas of Imathia, Pella, Kilkis, Serres and Halkidiki need snow chains as well.
The snowfall […]
According to EFFIS, the European Commission’s European Forest Fire Information System, 183987 hectares of forest was burnt between 24 and 26 August, during the forest fires that have ravaged Greece.
This brings the provisional figure to this point in the 2007 forest fire season in Greece to 268834 hectares.
The concentration of damage in the Peloponnese coincides […]
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Saturday pointed directly to arson as a behind an unprecedented wave of wildfires that have ravaged the country, particularly the southern Peloponnese, speaking during a brief nationally televised address on Saturday evening, where he also declared a ’state of emergency’ in the east Mediterranean country. “I am angered, as […]
The Olympic Games held in Athens in 2004 and their success gave Greece a new dynamic development, with capitalisation of that success still going on today in many sectors of the economy, Tourism Development Minister Petralia said Tuesday.
The minister added that the 2004 Games were a landmark for Greece’s tourism sector, as the Olympics again […]