Bookings to Greece remain steady, on the par with 2014, which was an excellent year for tourism, the head of German travel agents FTI Touristik said during a Munich presentation last week of its winter program, which includes more long haul locations, a wider variety of destinations in the East and Egypt, and many more discount deals.

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras was received by president Prokopis Pvlopoulos on Wednesday, immediately after returning from a tumultuous two days tour of Brussels and Strasbourg, where he was given an ultimatum by creditors to achieve a bailout deal.

"The Eurosystem operates from January 1, 2015 under a European community directive which guarantees all bank deposits up to 100,000 euros per depositor for each account", Louka Katseli, president of Hellenic Bank Association said on Thursday.