All Greek passenger airlines have scheduled a number of additional flights for the Easter holiday season to facilitate holidaymakers. Commercial flights are approaching 70% of passenger capacity in total while the most popular domestic destinations are Thessaloniki, Iraklion and Rhodes. Related posts:The Greek Orthodox Easter Growth of cruising holidays in Greece Transaero ...
Windstar Cruises, which operates a three-ship wind powered fleet of luxury yachts that explore the world's most sought-after destinations, announced its 2011 and Winter 2012 season voyages. As expected the new itineraries include Rhodes as one of its ports of call. In particular, the new Holy Land voyages that concentrate ...
Leading the way among world monuments agreeing to shut off decorative lights to demonstrate commitment to energy responsibility, the Acropolis will go dark for one hour at 8:30 pm local time on Saturday, March 27th to mark Earth Hour. Earth Hour will start in Greece and then proceed across the ...
Some 80% of Europeans continue to travel for their holidays according to a new Eurobarometer survey on The attitudes of Europeans towards tourism 2010. Only 20% of over 30,000 randomly selected citizens were almost certain that they will not travel in 2010, which is significantly below the proportion of non-travellers ...
This year’s ITB Berlin exhibition will be presenting products and services which cover the entire added value chain of the international travel industry. Rhodes will be there with its own booth (Hall 2.2) but there is more. PROTOUR (Organisation for Rhodian Tourism Promotion) will organize on Friday 12 March, an ...
Hellenic Seaways announced that starting from April 15 the Hellenic Voyager, will operate in the Dodecanese, connecting Rhodes and other islands with the mainland Greece. The ship can carry 1,600 passengers and 110 trucks at a speed of 22 knots. Related posts:Hellenic Voyager in Rhodes routes The Integration of the Dodecanese with ...
A wildfire that broke out on Wednesday at 8:30 pm in a forest area near the village of Embona was successfully contained yesterday late evening. Strong winds quickly spread the wildfire through the forest of Kunaràs covering the area from the outskirts of the village of Kritinia to the village ...
Star Clippers, a tall ship specialist, is launching a new stay & cruise package for the coming summer season of seven night voyages from the island of Rhodes. The offer includes a week soaking up the summer sunshine at the award-winning, five star Rodos Palladium hotel before joining the ...
Ryanair, Europe's biggest budget air carrier, announced six new routes to Greece. The new routes include flights to two of the major Mediterranean holiday destinations, Rhodes and Kos. The flights are expected to begin from April 2010, connecting the two islands with the main European airports. Ryanair's Greek routes are ...
A new solar power plant will be developed in Rhodes that will generate enough solar energy to supply 1.2 percent of the islands electricity demand. At present, the island’s power is mainly made by diesel generators that can produce up to 194.4 MW during peak demand periods. Rhodes’ energy consumption ...
