Quality of life

Greece needs to tap the huge market of medical tourism that neighboring countries are already greatly benefiting from, the secretary-general of the Greek Medical Tourism Council, Paris Kokorotsikos, told the 2nd Tourism Conference, titled "High Added Value Tourism" and co-organized by five bilateral chambers, which took place in Thessaloniki on Monday.

If you live in a depressing part of the world (a city that takes all your hard-earned cash for example) you’re probably desperate for an escape of some sort – one to the happiest country on Earth, maybe?

With World Happiness Day swiftly coming up we thought we’d bring you some happy news.

Greece has been ranked 87th out of 155 countries listed in the United Nations annual World Happiness Report.

According to the report, which factors in income, life expectancy, social support, and levels of generosity, freedom and trust, Greece, the Central African Republic and Venezuela experienced the biggest happiness drops in the period stretching from 2014 to 2016.

Bulgaria is being presented at the international tourism fair Salon Mondial du Tourisme held in Paris between March 16 and March 19, 2017.

Additionally he pointed out that the country Slovenia improve its tourism records because of hard work, not because some other locations are temporarily affected by crises of different nature. Moreover, Dr Taleb emphasizes, that tourism can have a transformative power to foster peace and reconciliation.

Thousands of small and medium-sized family enterprises in the tourism sector could be forced out of business due to excessive taxation, the head of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE), Andreas Andreadis, said at the association's 15th "Tourism and Growth" conference.

Bulgaria should use public-private partnerships to a bigger extent to develop its tourism industry as they do in the United States, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said.

Angelkova has made her comments in an interview for Focus News Agency, after meeting with Kenneth Hyatt, the US Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade, in Washington, DC.

British holiday company Thomas Cook said customers were delaying booking holidays, uncertain of making plans as they see previously popular destinations such as Turkey as less safe.

Alternate Minister for Tourism Elena Kountoura expressed her optimism that Greece would continue to be one the top tourist destinations in the world, speaking on occasion of the World Tourism Day.

According to official figures the 2015 tourism season is expected to close with a record arrival of 26 million guests and revenues of up to 15.5 billion Euros.

The Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) on Thursday announced that 2015 expected to witness the arrivals of roughly 26 million tourists and related tourism revenue worth more than 14.5 billion euros, both record-breaking figures.