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The arrivals of cruise ships in Greece will 25%  more compared to 2019, announced the Minister of Tourism Vassilis Kikilias from Genoa where he is participating in the European Summit of the International Association of Cruise Companies (CLIA).

The Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis today, Wednesday 27 April, will visit the Ministry of Tourism at 17:00, as mentioned in a relevant announcement.

The Prime Minister will have a meeting with the Minister of Tourism, Vassilis Kikilias, who is expected to inform him about the forecasts in view of the summer, but also about the image presented by tourism at Easter.

"The tourist season has started earlier than ever and we at the Ministry of Tourism work every day for its qualitative and quantitative upgrade", noted Minister of Tourism, Vassilis Kikiliasin in an interview with "Fortune", identifying among other things the actions that have already started taking place in this context: the 9 direct flights from the USA to Greece, until October, with over 460

Next Tuesday, the bill of the Ministry of Tourism entitled "Standard Tourist Destinations of Integrated Management, Management and Promotion Organizations, Spas of Greece and other regulations for the enhancement of tourism development" will be introduced in the competent parliamentary committee.

The 9th Balkan Textile Fair organized by Turkey kicked off in Serbia's capital Belgrade on Sept. 30. 

Participants from Turkey, Slovenia, and Serbia are displaying their products and introduce innovations in the textile industry to the visitors for three days.

The "day after" for Greek hotels, through the utilization of the available financial tools of the National Recovery Plan "Greece 2.0", was discussed today at the conference on "The next day of the Greek Hotel, utilizing the financial means" co-organized by the Ministry Of Tourism and the Hotel Chamber of Greece, at the Lighthouse of the Cultural Center Stavros Niarchos Foundation (KPISN), with

Israel managed to fully open up the economy earlier this week, with the help of an intensive vaccination campaign and an application that allowed immunized people to have access to public places everywhere, Ohan Cohen, head of the Foreign Trade Administration at the Israeli Ministry of Economy, told AGERPRES in an interview.

All beaches on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast are officially open to tourists as of June 1.

The largest southern tourist resort in Bulgaria, Sunny Beach, also started the season today.

There are mainly Bulgarians and Romanian tourists in the resort, who started coming to Bulgaria after the requirement for presenting negative PCR test result upon nerty to the country was lifted.

There is no decision as of yet concerning flights from Russia for tourism purposes. We remind that nearly a month ago Russia suspended the flights of its tourists to Bulgaria and thus for a second summer season on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast there will be no Russian tourists in our resorts .

An online platform called "Greece from Home" will be launched by the Ministry of Tourism, the Greek Tourism Organization and Marketing Greece, with the support of Google, aimed at reinforcing the country's positive image during the Covid-19 pandemic.