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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The two new firsts for Greece and GNTO were announced<\/strong> at the annual Grand Travel Awards (GTA) ceremony, held on 11 January in Oslo, Norway.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The “Grand<\/strong> Travel Awards”<\/strong> (GTA) have been organised for 26 years<\/strong> by the professional travel magazine Reis<\/strong> and its website, Travel News,<\/strong> in Norway and Sweden, making it the most important annual meeting of the industry in all sectors of the local travel industry.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The event was attended and received the awards by the Charg\u00e9 d’Affaires of the Greek Embassy in Oslo, Konstantinos Danassis and Maria Zeevgoula from the Scandinavian EOT Service.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EOT participation in Reiselivsmessen\/ Travelxpo<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The preference of the Norwegians for Greece was confirmed immediately after the award at the international tourism exhibition Reiselivsmessen\/Travelxpo 2024,<\/strong> which took place from 13 to 14 January at the Telenor Arena in Oslo, Norway.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The E.O.T. participated in the Exhibition with a stand of 18 sq.m. and co-exhibitors the Region of Crete – Regional Unit of Chania and the Region of K. Macedonia.<\/strong> The country’s participation was concluded with the conclusion that Greece is one of the top travel destinations for Norwegians.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reiselivsmessen\/Travelxpo 2024<\/strong> was attended by 166 Exhibitors from all over the world, including Travel Agencies and representatives of State Tourism Organisations, mainly from countries outside Europe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The visitors, who according to the organizers amounted to about 10,000 people, showed particular interest<\/strong> in Greece and especially in alternative tourism destinations,<\/strong> which combine the natural environment<\/strong> with access to the sea<\/strong>, while the rich Greek gastronomy<\/strong> is an important incentive for holidays in our country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Greece is one of the most popular tourist destinations for Norwegians with a high rate of repeat visitors, especially the 50+ age group<\/strong> who travel four times on average, are of high income level and appreciate the country’s cultural richness, the authentic natural environment and the Greek cuisine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Greek National Tourism Organization’s pavilion was visited by the Chief of Staff of the Hellenic Embassy in Oslo Mr. Konstantinos Danassis,<\/strong> who spoke with the attendees and our co-authors.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meetings were held at our stand with representatives of major Norwegian tourism magazines such as REIS<\/strong> and Pensjonisten<\/strong>, as well as with a representative of ANTOR Norway<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the same time, the Nordic Tourism Board of the Nordic Region, was awarded as The best foreign Tourist Office of the year 2023 and is the award it received – also for the second consecutive year – after being honoured at the same event as the Best Foreign Tourist Office for the year 2022!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,125,120,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-365-imeres-diakopes-en","category-epikairotita-en","category-ellada-en","category-taxidia-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grtraveller.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/gnto.gov.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/%CE%A6%CF%89%CF%84.4-TRAVELXPO.jpg\")
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