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Greece lifts COVID restrictions for summer tourism season

April 13, 2022516 Views

Greece said on Wednesday that pandemic restrictions such as mask-wearing indoors and COVID certificates will be lifted throughout the summer tourism period and authorities will consider reinstating them in September. Coronavirus infections in Greece have eased in recent weeks, with authorities recording 15,000 infections and 64 deaths on Tuesday. Out of a population of 11 million, some 72% are fully vaccinated. FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of a hotel resort on the island of Corfu, Greece, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Adonis Skordilis Greece's vital summer tourism season typically begins after the Orthodox Easter, which this year falls on April 24. Greece is expecting high numbers of visitors this year, with officials predicting revenues reaching 80% of 2019 levels, a record year before t...

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Southern Europe grapples with changing face of tourism

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March 6, 20221203 Views

It took one electricity bill to crush Dimitris Diavatis' hopes that his Greek summer resort could bounce back to its pre-pandemic health this year, even with bookings pouring in. The amount was more than double what he paid this time last year when the hotel was not even open. After two sluggish summers, the irony was not lost on him: "We won't make a profit in a good year," he said. "It'll be eaten up by inflation." Greece - like the other tourism-dependent economies on the euro zone's Mediterranean fringe – is seeing signs of a much-needed recovery in visitor numbers in 2022 after two largely lost years. As in Spain, Portugal and Italy, the sector is a huge employer and contributor to state revenues. General view of the schist village of Fajao, Pampilhosa da Serra , Portugal, F...

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Greece kicks off tourist season early to meet ‘great demand’

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February 17, 2022292 Views

Greece's tourism minister on Thursday said the visitor season would officially start in March, earlier than previous years, and there were "positive signs" of a bumper summer ahead. After COVID-19 brought global travel to a standstill in 2020, Greek tourism suffered its worst year on record with just 7 million visitors bringing in revenues of 4 billion euros ($4.55 billion). The industry, which accounts for a fifth of the economy and one in five jobs, began to recover last year when a season that officially began in May delivered about 10.5 billion euros in revenues, far less than an all-time record in 2019. Tourists walk past the ancient Parthenon temple atop Acropolis hill in Athens, Greece, February 16, 2022. REUTERS/Costas Baltas "There is great demand and great dynamic fo...

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Disco band rocks peace at historic monastery and, between two countries

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February 8, 2022316 Views

Greece protests to Turkey over ‘desecration’ at Sumela monastery Greece's foreign ministry said on Monday images showing a band dancing to electronic music at the former Orthodox Christian Sumela monastery in Turkey were "offensive" and "a desecration" of the monument. The ministry called on Turkish authorities "to do their utmost to prevent such acts from being repeated" and to respect the site, a candidate for UNESCO's list of world heritage sites. "The recent images that were displayed on social media, in which a foreign band seems to be dancing disco in the area of the Historical Monastery of Panagia Soumela, are a desecration of this Monument," it said. Turkish officials were not immediately available for comment. FILE PHOTO: A general view of the ancient Sumela Mona...

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Jerusalem’s holy sites and West Bank carpeted in rare snow

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January 27, 2022505 Views

A rare heavy snowfall covered Jerusalem, some of northern Israel and hilly areas in the occupied West Bank overnight into Thursday, shutting down roads and schools. Worshippers had to trudge through inches of snow to reach the holy sites in Jerusalem's walled Old City, including the snow-capped Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall. A general view of Jerusalem after a snowstorm, as seen from the Mount of Olives, shows the Dome of the Rock, located in Jerusalem's Old City on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Heavy snow is rare in the city, so children went out into the streets to watch the flakes falling and hurl snowballs at each other. Abed Shabany, 39, took his two sons to play on a hill overl...

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Heavy snow disrupts life in Turkey, Greece

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January 25, 2022831 Views

Some Istanbul Airport flights resumed on Tuesday after nearly 24 hours of cancellations as heavy snowfall clogged roads and stranded thousands of people across Turkey and Greece. In Athens, thousands were evacuated from a motorway and took shelter at the city's airport after Monday's severe snowstorm. By Tuesday, dozens of cars were still covered in snow as ploughs tried to clear roads. In Istanbul, the airport, among the world's biggest, was under a thick blanket of snow with runways and planes covered. Nuruosmaniye Mosque and Grand Bazaar, known as the Covered Bazaar, in Eminonu district are seen during heavy snowfall in Istanbul, Turkey January 25, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas The snowfall began late last week and picked up over the past days in the city of 16 million people, ...

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Greece to ban development in mountain areas to protect habitats

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January 18, 20221034 Views

Greece will forbid new road building and development in six of its mountain areas, taking a first step to protect its last remaining virgin habitats, Environment Minister Kostas Skrekas said on Tuesday. Making the transition to green energy a key priority, the conservative government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has promised to shut down nearly all its lignite-fired plants by 2025 and protect areas with native plants and animals. FILE PHOTO: A storm approaches the snow covered mountain range of Panachaiko, near Kalavryta, some 200 km (124 miles) south-west of Athens in Peloponnese district. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis Following devastating wildfires fuelled by a protracted heatwave last summer, the government has also promised to build better climate change defences to prote...

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Parthenon fragment returns to Greece

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January 11, 2022895 Views

Rekindles campaign for UK to hand over historical marbles A marble fragment of the Parthenon temple has been returned to Athens from a museum in Sicily, a move officials hope will advance efforts to have the British Museum send back ancient sculptures from Greece's most renowned ancient landmark. Athens' Acropolis Museum presented on Monday the "Fagan fragment", a 35-by-31-centimetre (12-by-14-inch) marble fragment showing the foot of the seated ancient Greek goddess Artemis brought home from the Antonio Salinas Archaeological Museum in Palermo. A fragment of the Parthenon temple, on loan from the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum of Palermo, is displayed at the Parthenon Gallery of the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, January 10, 2022. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinid...

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Warming temperatures threaten Greece’s prized olive oil

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December 16, 2021493 Views

Months before the harvest began in November, Greek olive oil farmer Michalis Antonopoulos knew it would not be a good year. First, his trees did not fully blossom because last winter was not cold and wet enough. In the spring, temperatures soared to 38 degrees Celsius (100 Fahrenheit), damaging the flowers that were to grow into olives. Then the summer brought the worst heat wave in decades, drying up the olives and setting off wildfires that torched hundreds of thousands of trees. Standing in his grove in Kalamata, Greece's best-known olive producing region, among trees that are hundreds of years old, Antonopoulos pointed to the results: half empty branches, with small or shriveled olives, or rotting, attacked by a fruit fly. "We're witnessing phenomena and problems th...

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Wildfires sweep through Mediterranean

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August 6, 20211155 Views

Thousands of people fled their homes on the outskirts of Athens on Friday as emergency crews struggled to stop wildfires from spreading to more towns while scorching winds fuelled blazes across Greece for the fourth day. Like elsewhere in Europe, Greece has been grappling with extreme weather this summer and a week-long heatwave - its worst in 30 years - has sparked simultaneous wildfires in many parts of the country, burning homes and killing animals as flames tear through thousands of acres of land. Flames rise as a wildfire burns at the village of Afidnes, north of Athens, Greece August 6, 2021. REUTERS/Costas Baltas There were 56 active fronts across Greece on Friday, from the Peloponnese to the island of Evia near the capital, where hundreds of people had to be evacuated by ...