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Greece to open 9 airports for flights from EU and 5 other countries on April 16

Greek media report on the lifting of restrictions on arrivals in Greece from abroad, but do not refer to any official source.

According to them, Greece plans to gradually lift restrictions on arrivals from abroad and open 9 airports for flights from the European Union and 5 other non-member countries, from Friday, April 16, while some media report that it will be applied from Tuesday.
The official goal remains that the full

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Chalkidiki - 40 years ago

Chalkidiki has always been an unique escape to Thessalonians during summer vacations. Thessalonians could not afford the luxury of "running" to the islands, since the islands nearby do not exist, as there is no good ship transport in order to reach them, so the city realized its summer dreams from the sixties on two fingers of Chalkidiki. At that time, these two fingers, if were not covered with swamps, were

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What are the accommodation prices in Greece for summer 2021?

The summer season is slowly approaching. Many tourists are thinking about summer vacations and ask what prices of apartments and hotels await us this year in Greece?

Prices are on average about 10-20% lower compared to the 2019 season. There are hotels and apartments that have kept the same prices, but most still lowered the prices by the mentioned percentage.
Some accommodation owners used the break in work to renovate their facilities

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Greece will recognize Chinese and Russian vaccine

Honestly, we did not hope for such good news. From last year's experience with the opening and closing of borders, we got the impression that Greece will complicate travel this year as well and have illogical rules. However, we received really good news yesterday. It is obvious that the Greeks have decided to make this season a success.

The Minister of Tourism of Greece, Mr. Teoharis, said yesterday in Belgrade that

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Open letter from the Thassos Tourism Network to the relevant ministries

The Thassos Tourism Network sent a letter to the competent ministries requesting that the situation with last year's closed borders in the north of Greece not be repeated.

Specifically in their open letter the members of the Thassos Tourism Network state:

"Looking back at last year's opening of tourism and especially the opening of the land borders we can only identify a series of failures and omissions.

This situation has created

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Letter from the Association of Hoteliers of Pieria to the Greek Government

Letter from the Association of Hoteliers of Pieria to the Greek Government regarding the need to work all the land borders of the country with the necessary staff and the necessary equipment.
"We all know that our country is facing a strong phenomenon called covid, and that the protection of human lives and society as a whole should come first. Also, until a final agreement is reached on a common European

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Open tourism in Greece by May 14

Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis said on Tuesday that Greece aims to open the tourism season by May 14, 2021. He stated that tourists will be welcome if they meet one of the three conditions. If they have:
1. Negative test (not clarified whether PCR or fast)
2. Positive antibody test
3. Confirmation of vaccine received
Random testing will be performed at the border, but with quick tests at the expense of the state. Given

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