Panos Thomakos
Nobody in their right mind ever expected that the European Union, or the United States of Europe, as Churchill put it, would be an [...]
After the qualification of Kalamata in the three final contenders for the Cultural Capital of Europe 2021 title last February, KALAMATA:21 Candidacy Office taking [...]
The figures are encouraging. Greek tourism targets 35 million arrivals and 20 billion euros in revenues by 2021, according to the country’s Tourism Confederation’s (SETE) [...]
"Visit Meteora" undertook another important action for the international tourist promotion of the region in collaboration with the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA). Last week, 300 delegates from 30 [...]
Deputy Mayor of Culture and Tourism of the beautiful Greek island of Kefalonia Evangelos Kekatos outlines the strategy for its promotion as a very [...]
Greece is a destination open to all visitors "genuinely interested in religious tourism and truly seeking to find themselves," Alternate Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura [...]
Greece and Russia will hold a Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference tomorrow, May 20, in Athens. The conference has been announced after the agreement made between [...]
It is true that Greece has been getting mostly negative publicity for numerous, successive years now, but most tourists that overcame this and decided [...]
The Greek government approved on Wednesday the environmental terms for the operation of a waterway in the Aegean Sea island of Patmos. On the occasion [...]
One of the world’s leading leisure travel groups Thomas Cook is introducing its new “Casa Cook” brand of boutique beach resorts to the world from [...]
Author
Editor of Tornos News international platform www.tornosnews.com
He was educated at Athens College, Phillips Exeter Academy, New College of the University of South Florida and Athens University. He worked for 33 years as a reporter, editor, columnist and editor-in-chief at various Greek and English language national political, financial and tourism daily and periodical newspapers, magazines and portals including Athens News, Mesimvrini, Status, Isotimia, Ependytis, Ethnos, Eleftheros Typos, Diners World Travel and www.e-typos.com.
He has also appeared as news anchorman and commentator for Mega Channel and Satellite Business Channel TV stations for 10 consecutive years and served as Press Office Director for the Ministry of Interior and the National Organization for Small and Middle Sized Enterprises (EOMMEX).
He has been a member of the Daily Athens Newspaper Journalists Union (ESIEA) since 1990.
