The luxury travel business is all about creating experiences, and few do it better than One&Only. Over the past 15 years, its tropical resorts, which offer next-level service in secluded locations, have become favourites among top-tier travellers. Now, however, the company is expanding its horizons, […]
Category: Mediterranean
Mediterranean as It Once Was: Selce in the 80s (Video)
To be more precise, a 15-minute trip back in time, to the glorious 80s when Selce used to be a booming summer destination. To be fair, Selce is still … If there's ever been a perfect visual representation of the iconic Croatian tourism slogan, the […]
Sam Nunberg’s Media Tour Tops This Week’s Internet News Roundup
Clocks move forward this weekend, which can only mean it’s time for the East Coast to struggle under feet of snow once again. Well, that or it’s time for Barack and Michelle Obama to team up with Netflix to produce shows to guide humanity into […]
A perfect day in Athens
In Athens, laiki agora are Greece's original farmers' markets, where locals stock up on everything from A to tzatziki. Each neighbourhood tends to … The Acropolis is Athens' star attraction, but at €20 it's pricey and slightly marred by scaffolding and territorial tour guides. Instead, […]
Greece frees German journalists arrested near Turkish border
A court in the Greek town of Orestiada on Saturday said it accepted that the pair, a 33-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man, had not known that they had entered a restricted military zone on the Greek-Turkish border. The journalists had been reporting on a […]
Bus Travel In Greece
Hi Forum Please can you kindly assist. I need to travel from Athens to Agrinio and I believe the best way is by bus. I have been researching the Internet about purchasing advance bus tickets but I have failed to find such info. So, I […]
North American travelers the main driver of growth for international travel in 2017
Countries that are seeing a recovery in confidence among travelers include Spain, the US, Germany and the UK. Meanwhile, the IPK International report, released out of travel trade fair ITB Berlin this week, predicts that global outbound travel will spike 5% this year. The report […]
Chinese tourist visas to Greece on the rise
An increase of 53.5% is the number of tourist visas issued in China for Greece was recorded during the first two months of 2018. An equally impressive increase of 30-40% in travel packages by tour operators and travel agents in China, was announced by the […]
Weekly wrap-up: Nor’easter snarls travel, yields widespread power cuts; Aftershocks rattle Papua …
Recent aftershocks were strong enough to produce more damage, the USGS said. Tropical Cyclone Hola, churning in the South Pacific Ocean, battered parts of Vanuatu and New Caledonia this week, before taking aim on New Zealand. Meanwhile, a storm set to bring flooding rainfall to […]
Greece axes tax privileges for islands
According to news portal Greek Travel Pages, the VAT hike will cause prices for medicines, books and magazines to increase by 1.5% on average. Prices for essential foods (fish, milk, fruits, vegetables and olive oil) will grow by about 4% while prices for petrol, cigarettes, […]