The survival of hundreds of Greek businesses in the hospitality industry is at stake after tour operator TUI earlier this month issued a series of contract amendments that require hotel owners to wait until March 2021 for three-quarters of the money due for accommodation booked this year, the Financial Times …

Tour operator TUI has extended the suspension of holidays to the Balearic Islands and Canary Islands for UK customers until August 4, and will increase flights to Greece and Turkey this weekend to enable more affected customers to switch their destinations. Britons were less inclined to consider Spanish destinations after …

A chartered flight landed on the island of Rhodes from Stockholm on Thursday afternoon, although there is an official direct flight ban from Sweden until July 15, 2020. “There was a permit for a marketing flight,” Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis said. However, neither journalists nor TUI executives were on board …

Travel company TUI has openly threatened the Greek government that it would cancel all its trips to Greece due to the 36-hour quarantine Athens reportedly wanted to impose on tested tourists, German daily BILD reports on Wednesday. Reason for the threats was the original Greek plan that tourists tested in …

Greece and British-German multinational travel company UI signed a strategic agreement on Tuesday with the commitment to support the Greek tourism. Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis and chief executive of TUI Group Sebastian Ebel signed the agreement on the island of Kos, where the first international flight, a special TUI flight …

Greece, as well as Cyprus, Bulgaria and Portugal, have “good chances” of opening up to tourism soon, said Fritz Joussen, executive chairman of German tourism group TUI. These countries sought talks with TUI and are preparing “very intensively for the return of tourists,” Joussen told Der Spiegel magazine, in an …

Workers are still not feeling economic recovery: wages are lower now than they were eight years ago in seven EU member states, according to new research published today by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). The research also shows that in 18 EU countries …

For some KTG readers, this may be an unknown aspect of the so-called “free education system” in Greece: The private tutorial schools for public high school students. A well-established system of tutorial classes that enables Greek students to pass exams and enter universities. A system that was established some decades ago for …

Blue Flag 2024: Greece is second in the world with 625 awarded beaches, 18 marinas an 9 touristic boats. The international Blue Flag quality award evaluates cleanness of bathing water and beaches, as well as services for the visitors. The prefecture of Halkidiki emerged as the top prefecture in Greece, …

Greece has launched a “free” holidays program “Rodos Week” for tourists who were forced to flee the island of Rhodes due to the wildfires in July 2023. The country fulfills its promises to tourists with vouchers up to 500 euros and for a week-long holiday in two available periods, that …

Ιnflation jumped to a new high in March creating an additional nightmare for households and businesses. According to Greece Statistics Authority ELSTAT inflation recorded 8.9% with the General Consumer Price Index to have increased by 2.7% compared to February. Electricity prices increased by 79%, gas by 68% and heating oil …

Greece’s tourism minister on Thursday said the visitor season would officially start in March, earlier than previous years, and there were “positive signs” of a bumper summer ahead. In an interview with international news agency Reuters, Vassilis Kikiliaw said “there is great demand and great dynamic for Greek tourism in …

Israeli minerals and diamonds billionaire Beny Steinmetz is being detained at the Athens airport several days after he was arrested in Greece on an Interpol international arrest warrant on the request of Romania. However, Greek and Israeli media report that the a warrant was cancelled.Steinmetz reportedly arrived in Athens on …

The resignation of Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz amid a corruption probe has sparked a political row in Greece as main opposition SYRIZA accused the government of blocking scrutiny efforts in public opinion polls published in Greek media. On Sunday, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras unleashed an attack on the government claiming …

A decision Thursday by the British government to scrap quarantine for fully-vaccinated Britons returning from medium-risk amber list countries from July 19 has sparked a surge for bookings in Greece and other destinations, according to media reports Friday. British Airways reported a 96 percent increase in the number of views …

Repeated rapid Covid-19 tests on crew members of cruise ship “Mein Schiff 6” on Tuesday morning were all negative , Greek media reported. The National Public Health Organization (EODY) carried out the tests after the cruise liner arrived at the port on Piraeus at 5 o’ clock in the morning. …

German cruise ship “Mein Schiff 6” departed from the port of Piraeus on Tuesday night, having been the first cruise ship that relaunched cruising in the Eastern Mediterranean on September 13, and the first to dock at Piraeus after a 6-month suspension of cruises in Greece. The ship was welcomed …

Passengers who were on a flight from Zante – the Greek island of Zakynthos – to Cardiff in Wales last week have been told to isolate after it was identified as the source of at least seven confirmed coronavirus cases, Public Health Wales said on Sunday. Health officials said that …

Greece announced that it will open its borders to UK on July 15. The announcement was made by government spokesman Stelios Petsas during the daily briefing Monday noon. He did not make any relevant announcement for Sweden, though. “In cooperation with the British government and following experts’ recommendaitons, the government …

The first confirmed coronavirus case of a foreign tourist vising the island of Crete has been identified on Saturday. It needed the help of local police to locate the patient. Health authorities are on alert. The identification of the first positive coronavirus case has been detected on Crete, just a …