Tourism minister Olga Kefaloyanni is on a three day visit of Constantinople in order to promote Greek tourism.

"Greece remains a very attractive destination for direct foreign investments in such sectors as transport, shipping and shipyards, energy and tourism," deputy foreign minister Kyriakos Gerontopoulos said on Monday.

The importance of tourism in the backbone of Greek economy was the gist of the address by finance minister Yannis Stournaras, at the 12th Conference of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) entitled "Tourism and Growth."