Archive for January, 2007



Tourism minister meets with visiting Korean official

Greek Tourism Minister on Thursday met with the chairwoman of the South Korean national assembly committee on tourism and culture, Cho Bae Sook, within the framework of a cooperation agreement signed last September between the two countries. Topics up for discussion included the establishment of ::More

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Greece’s participation in Vienna’s International Tourism Exhibition leaves best impressions

Participation of Greece to the four-day International Tourism Exhibition of Vienna was particularly successful. Last Friday’s terrorist attack at the U.S. Embassy in Athens left completely indifferent the Austrian public and entrepreneurs in the tourism sector. The large and impressive ::More

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Austrians prefer Greece

Representatives of the biggest Austrian travel organisations and businesses, as well as the Austrian press in related reports, highlight Greece as coming first in the Austrians’ preferences for holidays abroad this year, while pointing out that the previous year the number of Austrian ::More

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New findings from excavations at Lesvos

Impressive findings have come to light by excavations being carried out by the Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest. The new findings are already on show at the museum, at Sigri, while they will be announced at the 11th International Conference of the Greek Geological Society in ::More

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Financing of 1,250 projects in Cyclades and Dodecanese

The Secretary General of the South Aegean Region in a press conference in Rhodes on Monday said that 1,250 projects have been financed in the Dodecanese and Cycladic islands. 603 of these projects are financed by the Regional Operation Program with a total budget of 566 million euros, and 566 ::More

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