Chalkidiki

Greek government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Thursday financial aid will be offered to the three municipalities of Halkidiki to assist with the reconstruction efforts, following the freak storms which pummelled the region on Wednesday night.

According to the first police findings, six people lost their lives in a violent storm.
Two elderly Czech nationals were killed when strong winds swept away their travel trailer in Halkidiki, police said.

A tourist from Moldova described how people started running when a freak storm hit the seaside resort town of Nea Potidea in Halkidiki, the region affected by the severe weather which resulted in six deaths late Wednesday night.

A state of emergency was declared in the northern Greek region of Halkidiki Thursday after six people died in deadly storms and gale-force winds that hit the area late Wednesday night.

Most museums and archaeological sites in Greece will operate normally on Sunday when Greeks go to vote in the snap election.
However, the Culture Ministry has noted that certain sites and museums will see changes in their opening times.

An increasing number of construction groups, both Greek and foreign, are seeking to capitalize on foreign funds' investment interest in the development of tourism infrastructure in Greece.

The management of construction company Technical Olympic, controlled by the Stengos family, has according to sources put into practice its alternative plan for the utilization of Porto Carras, its most important asset.

A boy slips into the sea in Nafplio in the Peloponnese. Greece's beaches have received the second largest number of Blue Flags in the world this year, behind Spain, it was announced on Tuesday. Greek beaches bagged 515 flags, 12 percent of the total. Most of them went to beaches on the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece. [ANA-MPA] 

The ongoing process for the selection of a buyer for the Porto Carras holiday resort at Halkidiki, central Macedonia, has been attracting serious interest, although investors appear cautious for now, given the previous failure in 2014.

The Holy Community of Mount Athos, which represents a cluster of historic monasteries and one of Orthodoxy's holiest sites in Halkidiki, northern Greece, has called on the left-led government to hold a referendum on the contentious name deal.