After five years of operating direct flights linking Athens with New York, perhaps the time has come for Emirates to consider a similar service to northern Greece, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias proposed while speaking at an event organized by the airline to mark the anniversary.
Delta Air Lines is joining forces with Greek carrier Sky Express to offer a multitude of transfer flights to travelers from the US to a number of Greek destinations as of this week.
Roughly 900,000 tourists from Serbia are expected to visit Greece in 2022, as confirmed during Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias’ meetings with Serbian tour operators.
Aegean Airlines is enriching its summer schedule with a new destination, Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands, bringing its total to more than 140 in 44 countries.
NetJets, the worldwide leader in private aviation, is making its Posidonia debut in style on June 6-10 this summer at the Metropolitan Expo center as the sponsor of a business lounge dedicated exclusively to owners and C-level executives.
After the complete ban on ferry travel between Turkey and Greece which lasted two and a half years, ships once again began crossing the sea this spring – an encouraging sign for Greek tourism.
Greek tourism is already showing strong momentum this year, capable of approaching the golden year of 2019, based on data from Airbnb reservations.
Ilida Alvarez has dreamed of traveling to space since she was a child.
Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias welcomed the return to the Greek market of Condor, at a meeting he held in Athens on Tuesday with the airline’s head of strategic planning, Paul Schwaiger.
Face masks are set to be no longer mandatory in airports and on flights in Europe, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said on Wednesday.
A dynamic recovery of the tourism sector close to the 2019 pre-pandemic levels is forecast by industry experts, with record arrivals and travel receipts.
For Pieter Elbers, the chief executive of KLM (the Dutch arm of Air France-KLM) for the last eight years, the most difficult period was not while the planes were in the air, but when they were grounded due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Visitors to Samaria Gorge, one of Crete’s top natural attractions, located in the region of Hania, will now be able to purchase their ticket electronically via the website tickets-samaria.necca.gov.gr, or pay for admission by card at the gorge’s entrance points.
Aegean Airlines flights from Athens to Paphos have been extended until the end of October 2022, according to an announcement by the Paphos region’s Tourism Development and Promotion Office.
Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias on Tuesday said that Greece is “expanding routes and opening new destinations” to travelers from the United States.
Greece lifted Covid-19 restrictions on Sunday for foreign and domestic flights, its civil aviation authority said, ahead of the summer tourism season that officials hope will see revenues bouncing back from the pandemic slump.
