Tourism in Greece

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is chairing a special meeting on the refugee issue at noon on Friday at the government’s headquarters at Maximos Mansion, Athens. The meeting comes following the Greek PM’s visit to the border island of Lesbos with European Parliament President Martin Schulz.

The National History Museum of the Lesbos Petrified Forest’s critically acclaimed exhibition, titled “Aegean: Creation of an Archipelago”, is to be inaugurated at Chicago’s National Hellenic Museum on November 23, where it will remain until August 31, 2016.

The renowned Greek poet and singer left Greece at the age of 13 during Greek military junta of 1967 and relocated in Belgium, while from 1981 she has been staying in Paris.

Angelique Ionatos performs in Paris, Spain, Italy, Germany, Canada, while she rarely visits Greece. In 2009 had a concert in Mytilene, Samos and Athens.

Greece will focus on attracting tourists in non-peak season months, too Alternate Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura said on the opening day of the World Travel Market (WTM) in London on Monday.

UK-based Peter Sommer Travels decided to celebrate its 20th anniversary with a special guided tour of the Peloponnese Peninsula for 2016.

At least 13 migrants, six of them children, have drowned as two boats making the hazardous crossing from Turkey capsized in the Aegean Sea off Greece on Nov. 1, the Turkish Coast Guard has said, adding to the three children and one woman who died off Turkey's Çanakkale. 

The first tragedy occurred off the island of Samos when a boat overturned just 20 meters from the shore.

The journalist of Los Angeles Times, Jessica Gelt, writes about her experience visiting Greece stating that it is a perfect destination for budget holidays.

A boat carrying refugees was capsized after hitting on the rocks for unknown reasons early in the morning of Sunday at Samos island.

At least eleven people are dead, while among them are six children. Authorities managed to rescue 13 persons and continue the investigations to find the missing persons.

Rhodian Air is a start-up based on the island of Rhodes, Dodecanese, that is looking to commence island-hopper flights throughout the region beginning with nearby Samos early in 2016.

The small Fourni archipelago is just 17 square miles large but is hailed as the ancient shipwreck capital of the world thanks to the discovery of 22 shipwrecks in the area. Underwater archeologists are excited by the secrets hidden around the collection of 13 isllands and islets between the eastern Aegean Islands of Samos and Ikaria.