Tourism in Greece

National Geographic returned to a subject that created an avalanche of interest over the eastern Aegean island of Ikaria in 2012, a location which author Dan Buettner described as the "the island where people forgot to die."

Three thousand books will be given away on April 21 in Thessaloniki from 4-9 p.m. at the entrance of the Central Municipal Library at 27 Ethnikis Amynis Street.

People who receive the books will be able to offer food in exchange for vulnerable families.

As an unprecedented number of refugees arrive in the Dodecanese islands, Greek and European Union authorities must urgently improve the conditions of their reception and prepare a contingency plan for a higher peak of arrivals this summer, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned on Monday.

Roughly 100 migrants that "landed" on the small island of Gavdos, south of Crete, last week will be transported by ferry boat to Athens from Crete and then simply ? released to go where-ever they please, according to authorities.

Crete's highlands will celebrate Orthodox Easter in the finest ? white, as the mountains on the large Greek island are covered in snow!

Residents in Lasithi prefecture's famed plateau say the last time it snowed in April was 20 years ago, with the temperature on Thursday reaching minus 3C.

The Association of Greek Tourist Businesses (SETE) said that the 25 mln target of international tourist arrivals in Greece in 2014 is attainable.

There were more than 810,000 international arrivals recorded in Greece by the end of March 2015. The figure went up from about 29% compared to the same quarter last year, marking an additional 180,000 arrivals.

Turkish Airlines has been awarded the Active Greece Awards 2015. Turkish Airlines General Manager Alp Yavuzeser accepted the award in Athens on Monday.

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