Qatar Airways has recently announced it will begin flight service from Doha to Mykonos, starting May 30th, 2018. Because Mykonos is centrally located in the Cyclades and a very popular holiday destination for many travelers, Qatar has been seeking to add Mykonos to their repertoire of flights for quite some time.

Four weekly seasonal flights to Mykonos will be operated by an Airbus A320, featuring 12 seats in business class and 132 seats in economy class.

Qatar is also launching weekly non-stop flights to Thessaloniki in March 2018. They already offer three daily flights to Athens.

Source: Greek Reporter

EasyJet has recently announced new flight additions, including Greek destinations, to their summer schedule. The airline will connect Chania, Crete with Lyon and Nice in France, as well as connecting Corfu with Venice, Italy.

 

Flights between Chania and Lyon will be twice a week, beginning June 25, and flights between Chania and Nice will be every Tuesday beginning June 26. Easyjet will also conduct a weekly flight between Corfu and Venice every Sunday, starting on July 1.

By adding the new itineraries to its summer schedule, easyJet is expected to operate more than 5,700 flights in July and August with more than one million seats on sale, a four percent rise compared to the same period in 2017.

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EgyptAir's regional director for Greece and Cyprus recently stated that the airline will add two new flights from Athens to China. The two flights will connect Athens to Hong Kong and Shanghai via Cairo.

The addition of the two new routes comes as part of EgyptAir's 5-year plan to boost its presence in Greece and the wider region. After their success with the Santorini route added in 2017, the airline will plan to add more flights to the Greek islands.

In 2017, EgyptAir carried over 112,000 daily passengers from Athens to Cairo and Alexandria. In addition to adding new routes, EgyptAir also pans to add new aircraft to its fleet.

Source: Greek Travel Pages

Air Transat, Canada’s leading leisure airline, has recently increased their flights from Athens to Canada by 14 percent compared to 2017. Stating that the Athens market has a high demand for Canadians wanting to visit the Greek capital, the airline's Director of Sales announced that the airline would specifically add flights from Athens to Toronto and Montreal.

Air Transat's service from Greece to Canada will begin this summer season 2018. They will offer six direct flights every week to Montreal and Toronto. For passengers wanting to go to Vancouver or Calgary, Air Transat will offer connecting flights via Athens three times a week.

The flight schedule will run until October 2018.

Source: Greek Reporter

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The Greek island of Santorini is unique in that there are not many places in the world where you can enjoy clear waters while perched on the rim of a massive active volcano in the middle of the sea. Because Santorini has such a strong brand and presence in Greece and abroad, places like Turkey, Latin America, and South Korea have created their own cities to emulate the Greek island.

For example, in the Turkish town of Izmir, Park Life Santorini occupies an area of 21,000 square meters and borrows features from Santorini, like the windmill. Some critics say its features resemble Mykonos or Holland, rather than Santorini.

Located in Uruguay, is the "Santorini of Latin America." The Casapueblo, a magical sculptured hotel and museum, sits on a high rocky point jutting over the sparkling water of Punta Ballena, Uruguay. The Cycladic-inspired architecture and Punta Ballena's stunning sunset is what gives the Casapueblo a Santorini-feel.

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Newly open and located in an elegant historic European building in the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai, is the first and only Greek cultural center. Offering a taste of greek cultural heritage, greek gastronomy, hospitality and greek history, Hellas House aspires to become a new landmark in Shanghai's social, cultural, and business life.

The Tourism Minister Ms. Elena Kountoura, who attended the inauguration, said that "Hellas House is the ideal venue for the presentation of the unique treasures of Greece, while at the same time it really entices Chinese travelers to visit our beautiful country while strengthening the relations between Greece and China."

The opening ceremony was attended by many officials from both Greece and China, ambassadors from various countries, leading executives of international companies, businessmen and personalities of culture.

Article Source: ERT International

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Making its way to Scotland for the first time is the award-winning exhibition, Museum Without A Home, made up of items donated to refugees.

According to BBC, the exhibition items were mainly donated by people in Greece to refugees and asylum seekers as the refugee crisis began to unfold in 2015/2016. First shown in Athens, it was put together by Amnesty International and Oxfam.

As the exhibition travels the world, it picks up items along the way. Scotland's contribution if welcome letters written by locals.

Eiman, who lives in Scotland and came from Sudan, said, "If you have nothing and you arrive in a new place, the simplest act of kindness can make a really big difference, whether that's in Athens or here in Glasgow. So with these items, it's the story that they tell, even if they seem like a strange thing to put in a display case."

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After traveling to Greece with family in the spring of 2017, Ontario-based artist Lynn Pinchin became inspired to create. Her new work is titled 'Glorious Greece' and is now on display at the Art With Panache in London, ON.

Pinchin said to the London Free Press, “I attempted to capture in these paintings the feeling of joy that is everywhere in Greece by choosing dancing colours and recreating fun in the movement of windswept brush strokes inspired by the spectacular views of dazzling white houses and hills, along with the amazing Blue Domes of Santorini."

Her work is popular at the art gallery and is a regular contributor of beach scenes. If you find yourself in London from now until September 29, 2018, head to the Art With Panache gallery.

Article source: The London Free Press

AA recently announced their new flight service between Athens International Airport and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport that will officially launch in the summer of 2019.

The flight service will run from May until September on the Boeing 787-800 Dreamliner. There will be 198 seats in the main cabin and 28 in business class, introducing about 67,000 new seats to the travel market.

This new route makes it American Airlines' second connection with Athens. The first operates to Philadelphia, USA.

Article source: Tornos News

Babis Bizas is a Greek explorer, travel writer, author, and tour operator who travels for more than 300 days per year, each year. According to the Guinness Book of Records, Babis Bizas is the most traveled person in the world and one of the very few individuals to have visited both the North and the South Pole. By 2004 he had managed to travel to every single sovereign State in the world.

 

Bizas works as a manager for a travel agency where he plans trips to under-the-radar destinations such as Transnistria and Kurdistan. When asked about his favorite destinations, Bizas says that he is passionate about the tribal areas of Africa and Asia, where  old cultures and deep routed traditions have managed to survive, resisting modernization.

 

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