Tourism is leading Greece’s accelerating recovery during the waning COVID-19 pandemic – it’s the country’s biggest revenue engine – but the comeback is being aided by transport and trade too.Source...
No longer a jumping-off point to get to the islands, Athens has become a tourist lure with coffee shops, funky neighborhoods, and areas easy to walk, foreign visitors still packing the city as autumn...
30/09/2022
On a path to bust records for foreign visitors and revenues – even during the waning COVID-19 pandemic – Greece marked World Tourism Day celebrating its success but saying the business would need...
29/09/2022
The European Commission should set up an 80-billion-euro fund to deal with the fallout from high natural gas prices, Environment & Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas proposed to EU officials.Source:...
28/09/2022
Happy Days are here again in Greece even during the waning COVID-19 pandemic because a tourist-driven economy will bring 6 percent growth, said Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras.Source: The...
27/09/2022
Greece tourism is hot but it will be too hot by 2027 to keep coming, the weather becoming too uncomfortable and climate change sending people looking for cooler destinations in summer, a British...
26/09/2022
Worried about record inflation, doubled electricity bills and still-rising supermarket prices, consumers and households in Greece are voting with their wallets – by not opening them as much.Source:...
23/09/2022
Even during the waning COVID-19 pandemic, July was a record-busting tourism month in Greece with not just hordes of arrivals but big spenders filling the state treasury.Source: The National Herald
22/09/2022
The metro, tram, electric railway (ISAP), trolleys and buses will not run in Athens today, as workers’ unions will participate in a 24-hour strike called by the Athens Labor Centre.Source: The...
21/09/2022
The first pension hikes in Greece in a dozen years won’t benefit one-third of recipients who aren’t in line to get increases promised by the New Democracy government starting in 2023 – an election...
20/09/2022