Tourism in Greece

The Cycladic island of Tinos will feature in BBC’s documentary “This is Greece” which will be broadcast in the US, UK and Australia.

The filming took place on 17 and 18 September with the BBC crew visiting some of the island’s major sites and traditional villages including Isternia, Kardiani, Volax and Triantaros and the Temple of Poseidon and Amphitrite in Kionia.

Harvard University International Politics Professor Dani Rodrik will deliver a speech on Friday at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron Mousikis) on “Structural Reforms: Lessons from other lands.”

Klelia Renesi, the sexy Greek actress is sharing her time between Paris and Athens, as she in a relationship with famous French singer Manu Chao. According to weekly Greek gossip magazine ‘Hello’, Klelia spent her short summer holidays on the island of Zakynthos with her French amore. The magazine says they are madly in love, with Klelia keeping her relationship away from media lights.

Thousands of life jackets piled up on a beach near the town Molyvos in the Greek island of Lesbos formed a small hill. The images taken by AFP photographer Aris Messinis indicate the proportions of the refugee crisis that has now reached other northern European countries, and led to Europe scrambling to find solutions while revealing divisions within EU member-states.

Rhodes, Santorini, Mykonos, Naxos, Paros and Skiathos will reportedly be the first six islands where a discounted VAT rate will be axed, bringing the lowest rate to 9 percent (from 6), the medium rate to 13 percent (from 9) and the “uber-high” rate to 23 percent (from the current 16 percent).

Faust (Cnr of 11 Kalamiotou and 12 Athinaidos sts. Call 210 3234095)
Katerina Polemi brings a night of Brazilian and gypsy improvisations.
WHEN 10 p.m. October 1
ADMISSION 8 euros with a reservation (no drink)

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.

World Tourism Day on Sept 27 coincides with the rare supermoon total lunar eclipse, a phenomenon that hasn’t happened since 1982. Over the past 115 years there have been only five of them and the next one is due in 2018.

The moon will be just 387,472 km meaning that it will be 13% larger than normal, making it a sight worth seeing.

When to see it:

The third bailout agreement for Greece sees the special VAT rate on Aegean islands to gradually phase out as of October 1. It will initially be abolished on the islands of Paros, Mykonos, Santorini, Naxos, Syros, Tinos and Milos.

The central Aegean island of Skopelos, part of the Sporades chain, was swamped by torrential rains on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, with the unprecedented flooding on the island causing significant damage.
Cars piled on top of each other, like fallen dominos, and others washed into the sea, were just some of the destruction island residents awoke to.