Soufli, a town in the Evros regional unit, Greece, has been selected as one of the 44 “best tourism villages” by the World Tourism Organization. Soufli is notable for the silk industry that flourished there in the 19th century. The Best Tourism Villages by UNWTO initiative was launched to advance the role of tourism in safeguarding rural [...]
The Greek ministry of Development and Investments moves forward with its plans for the first “State of Innovation” in Greece. The “State of Innovation” aspires to become “the natural headquarters for innovation” in the country, a multipurpose space, where start-ups, researchers, universities and business research & development departments will create (through synergies) innovative products and [...]
Interview by Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary – General of UNWTO to Symela Touchtidou Tourism, one of the most crucial sectors in the fight against climate change, found itself at crossroads, long before the pandemic hit. Its stakeholders (states, entrepreneurs, local communities and tourists themselves) are asked to make a decisive turn: change their ways or face [...]
Orgenesis, a global biotech company working to unlock the full potential of cell and gene therapies, announced that its joint venture (JV) with Theracell Advanced Biotechnology in Greece has been designated a “Priority Investment of Strategic National Importance.” The designation was awarded by Enterprise Greece, the official Greek national investment and trade promotion agency, which [...]
ZeroNorth opens new offices in Varna and Mumbai to expand Professional Services offering New hubs in Bulgaria and India will enable ZeroNorth to further scale up its Professional Services offering for customers and underpin organisation’s 24/7 weather advisory, voyage and vessel optimisation consultancy Copenhagen, Denmark; 24 November 2021: Maritime technology company ZeroNorth has today [...]
In the times of Delta and Omicron variants, Greece risks stumbling by Antonis D. Papagiannidis For modern Greeks, the use of Ancient Greek alphabet letters in – say – astronomy (Alpha Centauri/aCen is a gravitationally bound star system, Beta Cygni/bCyg is double-star Albireo), physics (gamma rays) medicine (delta waves in EEG) may well sound a [...]
Greece as an outlier in the Covid-19 pandemic by Antonis D. Papagiannidis The Covid-19 state of affairs has made of Greece an outlier in Europe – more than once. At the very beginning of the pandemic, decisiveness carried the day. Declaring (and implementing) a rigorous lock-down, where people had to send SMSs to a central [...]
Euphoria in the Shipping World Is it for real? Slide2Open Shipping Finance 2022 Phygital Conference Experience What a difference a year makes! Compared to our previous conference, most markets have taken off with unprecedented ferocity. But is this going to be one more shipping boom and bust cycle or are we about to [...]
Playing to the global public opinion by Antonis D. Papagiannidis The high-profile clash of red-hatted (and -masked) aggressive Dutch journalist Ingeborg Beugel with obviously aggravated Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis over Greece’s treatment of asylum-seekers, over push-backs at sea as well as over the ever-lasting matter of truth-and-lies has got quite a lot of public-opinion [...]
The power sector accounts for a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. To meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, the world needs to move away from coal and towards clean power about five times faster than at present. Leaders at COP26 are working on plans to accelerate a global transition from coal to clean [...]
