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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – The Greek Alternative Tourism and Gastronomy Workshop 2020 will travel to four European cities this year, with the aim of promoting Greece as the ultimate alternative and gastronomy destination.
For the first time, alternative tourism and agrifood are presented to four strategically important European markets. In Copenhagen on April 1, Paris on April 28, Warsaw on October 15 and in Brussels on November 25, 2020.
The Greek Alternative and Gastronomy Workshop 2020 offers its services to tourist businesses and public agencies that are interested in promoting their services and products on alternative tourism. Participants from European markets include 75 to 85 travel agents and tour operators active in the alternative tourism market, while with respect to the agrifood sector, there are 35 buyers, including importers and retailers.
The Greek National Tourism Organisation (GNTO) is participating in all the events that are held under the auspices of Tourism and Agriculture Development Ministries and the intercultural group for UNESCO.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.