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Greece: Direct Ferries Again Connect Thessaloniki with Aegean Islands
Direct ferries connecting Thessaloniki Port with most Aegean islands will be launched.
The small islands run a new type of advertising campaign: all residents get vaccinated to attract tourists.
Global Traveler distinctions for Greek destinations
The Greek island of Santorini has been distinguished for the seventh year running as the Best Island in Europe by Global Traveler's Leisure Lifestyle Awards.
The annual survey honors the best in the world of leisure and lifestyle travel, awarding goods, services, destinations, hotels, airlines and cruises.
The coronavirus party
For all those beach bars across Greece that have been violating the ban on overcrowding, with their patrons reveling in a carefree, holiday mood, the imposition of controls to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is proving to be extremely difficult and the imposition of penalties and fines is so complicated that it ends up almost impossible to do so.
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Despite risks, Greek islands keen to reopen to tourists
Mykonos' newest bar-restaurant, Pelican, seemed to appear from nowhere. Tables, coffee machines, light fittings, music mixers and staff wearing matching black face masks were still being slotted into place as Greek visitors trickled in at the start of a long holiday weekend.
Owner Vasilis Theodorou says he's in a hurry to get back to business.
Greece is, too.
Green light for tourism investments
Two tourism investment projects adding up to 110 million euros have just got that bit closer to implementation after the issue of two necessary decisions.
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Mykonos and Santorini placed in partial lockdown
Stricter restrictive measures have been imposed on the islands of Mykonos and Santorini in a bid to prevent a spread of Covid-19 in the two popular holiday destinations.
At the same time, the villages of Damaskinia and Dragassia in the municipality of Voio, northern Greece, came out of quarantine on Monday.
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Mykonos, Santorini under stricter quarantine
The Greek government has announced stricter quarantine measures for the islands of Mykonos and Santorini, both of which are among Greece's premier tourist destinations.
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Mykonos under stricter quarantine
The Greek government has announced stricter quarantine measures for the islands of Mykonos and Santorini, both of which are among Greece's premier tourist destinations.
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Holiday island of Mykonos reports first Covid-19 case
Authorities on the popular Greek holiday island of Mykonos were scrambling on Thursday to discover how a 69-year-old resident contracted the novel coronavirus and to trace everyone she may have come into contact with in order to contain its spread.
Ferryboat quarantined off Limnos over suspected coronavirus infection
A passenger ferry was placed in quarantine in the early hours of Thursday in the northeastern Aegean island of Limnos, as health authorities ascertain whether a sick crew member is infected with the new coronavirus.