In an effort to promote European tourism on a global scale, the EU’s portal called “europeanbestdestinations.com” is running its competition for users to have their say on what the best European destination is for 2018. Athens is among the 20 preselected destinations. It is time to go to the site and vote for Athens.

Greece saw a large rise in travel revenues from Germany, in the 11-month period from January to November 2017, making a significant contribution to a 10.7% increase in the revenue recorded by the Bank of Greece in the travel account.

A light tremor measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale shook the island of Crete, at 01:14 on Wednesday, according to the Geodynamics Institute of Athens’ National Observatory.