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☆ I was born and raised in Greece. These are the 11 best luxury resorts in the country that are actually worth the money.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Fani Mari | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I'm from Athens, Greece, and I travel around the islands all the time staying at luxury resorts. Some of my favorite spots in Crete are Stella Island Resort and ACRO Suites. And if you're looking for luxury, I've found some of the best resorts in the country. One&Only Aesthesis Resort, AthensOne&Only is a global brand, but the chain's first luxury resort in Greece is located in Glyfada, right by the sea. AdvertisementStella Island Resort, Heraklion, CreteStella Island is an adults-only resort that's great for solo women, couples, or honeymooners.

Persons: Sani, —, I've, Mari, Cavo, Fani Mari, Halkidiki Sani, Milos Cove, Milos, Milos —, Aphrodite, Porto, Sven Hansche Organizations: Service, Delta Air Lines, UNESCO, Cavo, Porto Heli Porto Heli, Porto Cheli Locations: Athens, Greece, Crete, Stella, Mystras, Mykonos, Glyfada, Kea, Antiparos, Heraklion, Crete Stella, Maldives, Agia Pelagia, Kiev.Victor, Zakynthos, Peloponnese, UNESCO, Spetses

☆ As Development Alters Greek Islands’ Nature and Culture, Locals Push Back
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Niki Kitsantonis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With a deluge of foreign visitors fueling seemingly nonstop development on once pristine Greek islands, local residents and officials are beginning to fight back, moving to curb a wave of construction that has started to cause water shortages and is altering the islands’ unique cultural identity. Tourism is crucial in Greece, accounting for a fifth of the country’s economic output, and communities on many islands depend on it. But critics say the development has spiraled out of control in some areas, particularly on islands like Mykonos and Paros, where large-scale hotel complexes have mushroomed in recent years. Teachers and other professionals in those and other Cycladic islands, a popular cluster in the Aegean Sea, have struggled to find affordable housing amid an influx of visitors and home buyers, fueling growing protests by locals over the repercussions of rampant tourism. The islands, at the forefront of Greece’s tourism boom, are facing increasingly urgent calls to preserve their natural and cultural heritage.

Locations: Greece

☆ Travel news: Escape the crowds at these affordable alternatives to hot spots
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Get the latest news in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. They’re all shooting up Expedia’s search rankings, too, which means you might want to get there before everybody else does. Making tracksIndonesia launched Southeast Asia’s first bullet train last month, a $7.3 billion train line that connects two of its largest cities, Jakarta and Bandung. And in Austria, state railway ÖBB has unveiled a 33-strong fleet of night trains that will debut next month. England was the birthplace of railways, back in 1825, but almost 200 years later, the country’s train industry is in turmoil.

Persons: Expedia, Martin, Copenhagen’s Noma, Le Gavroche, Julie Balzano, ”, Rodney Hodgins, CNN Tom Stuker, Here’s Organizations: CNN, Michelin, Nashville, Passengers, Air Canada, Geographic Locations: Paros, Greece, Perth, Australia, Liverpool, Palermo, Sicily, Lisbon, Quebec City, Canada, Geneva, Switzerland, Memphis , Tennessee, Pattaya, Thailand, Bangkok, Taipei, Taiwan, Seoul, South Korea, Sapporo, Japan, Zermatt, Long, Miami, Colombia, Las Vegas, Indonesia, Southeast, Jakarta, Bandung, Austria, Britain, England, Korea

☆ ‘No Space for Us’: Greeks Fight Beach Takeover by Pricey Sun Chairs
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Niki Kitsantonis | More About Niki Kitsantonis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It is peak tourist season in Greece, and on the pristine Monastiri beach on the northern tip of Paros island, a phalanx of lounge chairs with red umbrellas covers the sand. “In some cases they covered 100 percent of the beach,” said Nicolas Stephanou, 70, a local resident. “We feel we’re being pushed off the island,” he added, explaining that people are made to feel unwelcome unless they use the services of the beach bars that own the chairs. Many local people like Mr. Stephanou have had enough, saying seaside businesses have left them hardly a scrap of sand on which to lay their towels. Since starting in July, the protests have caught on nationwide, inspiring a “beach towel movement” organized over social media from Corfu in the north to Crete in the south.

Persons: ”, Nicolas Stephanou, Stephanou Locations: Greece, ”, Corfu, Crete

☆ Greeks protest for space on the beach as pricey sunbeds multiply
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Beaches are public in Greece, a country receiving millions of tourists every year, mainly in the summer, its top tourism season. However, an increasing number of businesses have received licenses to rent out sun beds and umbrellas which they set up along a stretch of beach. In Naxos, more than 5,000 people have joined the Facebook group "Save the beaches of Naxos now! Greece has a 16,000 kilometre long coastline and hundreds of beaches where companies hire sunbeds. The country emerged from a debt crisis five years ago and relies heavily on tourism for economic recovery.

Persons: sunbeds, Ronit Nesher, Paros, Eleni Andrianopoulou, Renee Maltezou, Deborah Kyvrikosaios, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: Facebook, Alexandra Hudson Our, Thomson Locations: ATHENS, Paros, Naxos, Greece

☆ 3 travel agents for the world's wealthiest people share exactly where the 1% are traveling this summer, from Botswana to the Côte d'Azur
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Mark Ellwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Summer travel can be done on a budget, but for the world's wealthiest people, no expense is spared. Top travel agents shared the hottest spots they're seeing this year, from Paros to the Côte d'Azur. Instead, look to the elite group of agents who help wrangle those jaunts and cater to the wealthiest, most demanding vacationers. Courtesy of John CliffordJohn Clifford in San Diego runs International Travel Management and has expertise with LGBTQ+ travel. Insider asked these travel professionals to share the secrets of where and how the richest 1% are vacationing in summer 2023.

Persons: they've, Jules Maury, Jules Maury Jules Maury, Scott Dunn, John Clifford, John Clifford John Clifford, Edward Granville ., Edward Granville Edward Granville, Granville, Maury, I've, Clifford, he's, Côte, they're, We've, Rod, it's, Paros, It's, Cosme, Parilio, Avant, she's, she'd, Milos Organizations: Côte, Service, San Diego, Travel Management, d'Azur, Porto Heli, Italy, Avant Mar, HBO, Domenico Palace Locations: Paros, Wall, Silicon, San, Red Savannah, London, COVID, Europe, Cannes, France, Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Botswana's Okavango Delta, Kenya, Porto, Greece, Italy, Spain, Athens, Amalfi Coast, Rome, Sicily, Domenico

☆ See Europe's less-crowded destinations as Americans flood the hot spots
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-18 | by ( Terry Ward | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

North Jutland, DenmarkSouthern Europe swells with crowds during summer, and it can also get hot to the point of extremely uncomfortable in July and August. Temperatures in Seville and other spots in southern Spain recently exceeded the 110˚ Fahrenheit mark (43.3 Celsius). MontenegroLeave Croatia’s jam-packed Dubrovnik to the hordes of “Game of Thrones” hangers-on and make for less-trampled spots in neighboring Montenegro instead. It’s just 40 minutes from the popular beaches of Taormina, which are flooded with “White Lotus” fans this summer. There are beaches all around the peninsula, but if you only hit two, Mylopotamos and Fakistra on the Aegean side are the can’t-miss spots.

Persons: ”, Tania Swasbrook, Swasbrook, it’s, Jack Ezon, he’s, “, ” Ezon, you’ve, Mads Østergaard, Moritz, St, Du, Marianne Fabre, Lanvin, Vin de Bonté, ” Fabre, Arlindo Serrão, Serrão, ” Serrão, Dolev Azaria, Azaria, Portonovi, Spain Spain’s Costa, Spain Spain’s Costa de la Luz, Manni Coe of, TOMA, ” Coe, El Rompido, Italy Lipari, Diego Fiore, Dario Ferrante, Absolute, Ferrante, ” Ferrante, Andreas Heide, Barba, Alan Mandic, ” Mandic, Andria Mitsakos, Mitsakos Organizations: CNN, Allianz Partners, Vgari, CNN Travel, Croatia, Michelin, Tri, Villa, –, SAS, France International, gravitate, Cannes, Lodging, Le, Adobe, Alentejo ‘, “, New, UNESCO, Costa de la, Spain Spain’s Costa de la, del Sol, Albanian Locations: Europe, Tuscany, Slovenia, Croatia, Kotor, Montenegro, Italy, France, Pantelleria, Paros, Spain, Portugal, North Jutland, Denmark Southern Europe, Seville, Denmark, Cold Hawaii, ”, Jutland, Aalborg, Denmark’s, “, Newark, United States, Moritz, Switzerland, St, Engadin, Badrutt’s, Swiss, Nice, Montpellier, l’Espiguette, L’Oyat Plage, Alentejo, Lisbon, Algarve, Comporta, Dubrovnik, “ Montenegro, New York City, Como, Costa de, Costa de la Luz, Spain Spain’s Costa de, Barcelona, del, Manni Coe of Andalusia, Tarifa, El, Cadiz, Huelva, Mazagón, Aeolian, Sicily, Amalfi, Caribbean, Salina, Filicudi, Mount Etna, It’s, Taormina, Senja, Norway, Svalbard, Lofoten, Northern Norway, Zadar, Split, Hvar, Silba, Pelion, Greece, Mykonos, Albania, Ksamil . Albania's, Balkan

☆ FOTO. Alexei Micu – producătorul care „și-a molipsit” tatăl de agricultura ecologică
▼ + stars: | 2019-06-21 | by ( Luminita Crivoi | ) agrobiznes.md time to read: +9 min

Nuci, prune și o mulțime de cereale – toate ecologice, sunt crescute pe 280 de hectare în satul Olișcani din Șoldănești. Livada de prun este de soiul Stanley și pentru polenizare a fost plantat soiul Cabardinca. Prima a fost convertită în sistemul ecologic livada de nuci, urmată de câmpurile agricole și livada de prun. Dacă Domnul Nicolai Micu a reușit cumva să-i cultive germeni de agricultor fiului său, acesta, la rândul său, și-a molipsit tatăl de agricultura ecologică. „Mi-a fost greu să-mi conving tatăl să producă și el ecologic, fiind obișnuit cu modul tradițional îi era cam greu.

Persons: Alexei Micu, Alexei, agricutură, urzică, Nicolai Micu Locations: Șoldănești, Mana, Chișinău, Turcia, UE, Liechtenstein, Moldova

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