MSC Cruises Looking to Restart Greece Sailings Next
MSC is hoping to restart Greece sailings next. Photo: MSC Cruises.
MSC Cruises today announced that it was working closely with the Greek Ministry of Tourism towards a restart of its Greece sailings.
MSC has already successfully restarted its Mediterranean sailings out of Genoa, Italy on MSC Grandiosa, and is now hoping to add sailings out of Greece sometime after April 29.
MSC had been planning to restart on Feb. 14 on MSC Magnifica, but has since pushed that back until at least after April 30. That ship will now be replaced for Eastern Mediterranean Voyages, including Greece, during the Easter period and through summer, MSC said.
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MSC Cruises announced on Thursday that it is working closely with the
Greek Ministry of Tourism and other relevant authorities on reopening local tourism services to resume serving cruise passengers visiting Greece, starting with the upcoming
Easter holiday period (April 4, 2021).
Currently, MSC Cruises plans to operate a seven-night roundtrip sailing from
Bari, Italy aboard
MSC Opera, which visits
Corfu, Greece. Departure dates include March 30 and April 6 and 13. It also has a six-night voyage aboard
MSC Lirica scheduled for April 16, which departs from
Venice and visits, among other destinations, Corfu,
Mykonos and
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Greek Twins Become Ambassadors of Greek Tourism in China
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Greek twins Marianna and Sofia Erotokritou were officially named ”Ambassadors of Greek Tourism in China,” on Thursday by the Greek Ministry of Tourism.
The two young women have been living and studying International Trade and Economics in China since 2013.
Since then, they have been engaged in a series of initiatives to promote the Sino-Greek friendship.
According to China’s Xinhua news agency, the two Greek women ”have produced several tourist videos in Chinese about Greece’s destinations, culture, and way of life, attracting in some cases over one million views on Chinese social media.”
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Angela Gerekou, who heads the Greek National Tourism Office (GNTO), could have lead a charmed, hassle-free life. Had she relied on her good looks alone, she could have had an easy innings but, by her own account, she’s never been one to fall into stereotypes so she chose a meandering life filled with “obstacles and challenges”.
As a young architect, she was snapped up into the world of acting in the ’80s before joining the socialist PASOK party as Greece’s deputy culture and tourism minister at the peak of the economic crisis in the government of George Papandreou (2009-2010) and became deputy sports and culture minister with the conservative new democracy party in the government of Antonis Samaras (2014). And while her soulful blue eyes and calm demeanour may have garnered a few votes as well as the heart of singer Tolis Voskopoulos, Ms Gerekou has never been one to rest on her beauty alone thanks to sheer grit that has ensured her staying power.