Ninety-five percent of last year’s visitors in Athens said they would recommend the destination to others, according to the latest study on customer satisfaction presented on Tuesday by the president of the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association’s, Alexandros Vassilikos.

Better known for the unique, dramatic landscape of the Meteora district and its historic monasteries, the town of Kalambaka also has a little known but excellent natural history museum with an extensive mushroom collection (full name the Museum of Natural History of Meteora and Mushrooms Museum), which this year was short-listed for two European Museum Academy awards.

The new airport of Paros, expected to handle four times the traffic and contribute to an increase in tourism, strengthen the local economy and create new jobs, is set to open its doors and be fully operational on July 25.

Formations of Turkish military aircraft on Wednesday flew over Greek islands in the Aegean, where they were identified and intercepted by Greek fighter planes.