Events for Halloween attraction for tourists
Another possible three -day is on the occasion of the gates to give tension and impetus to the tourist movement of the time, well before the opening of the tourist season.
Events organized to celebrate Halloween and Clean Monday act as a pole of attraction for many destinations with specific, however, keeping the lead for years, such as Patras. The popular destinations for the Clean Monday three days are Xanthi, Naoussa, Skyros, Rethymnon, Tyrnavos, Kozani and Kastoria, Syros, Ioannina, Thebes and Galaxidi, According to the president of the Federation of Hellenic Associations of Tourism and Travel Agencies Lysandros Tsilidis, speaking to the Athens and Macedonian News Agency.
“In general, we are in traffic in Thessaly, Pelion, Trikala and Kastoria at this time. Due to the events, however, for Halloween people will move to destinations that have events in the three -day event and the movement is calculated about last year’s levels. As far as abroad is concerned, excursions are currently to Brazil and Venice, where the carnival is traditionally done, ”Mr Tsilidis points out.
As early as Christmas the demand for the days of carnival events at Patras It is increased and as every year thousands of visitors are expected in the city, according to the President of the Hoteliers Association N. Achaia Dimitris Diamantopoulos. The accommodation is filled, not only in the city but also in the wider area, by visitors.
With very high fullness they move and her hotels Thrace (Komotini, Alexandroupolis and Xanthi), due to the Carnival of Xanthi and the Great Parade and the events that take place there every year, as pointed out by the President of the Thrace Association of Thrace Apostolos Palakidis. Alexandroupolis is a steady to an attraction for Turkish tourists, which is expected to increase due to the three -day period, as well as several tourists from Bulgaria in the region.
The high demand this year is also the Naoussawhose visitors are disseminated for their stay throughout the area and reach Edessa and Katerini, as Naoussa Mayor Nikos Koutsogiannis notes. “We have reservations from last year for this three -day one,” notes Naoussa Mayor, explaining that the Naoussa Carnival and the well -known custom “Janissaries and Boules” are very popular while good weather for skiing favored tourism in general this year. .
Fixed popular destination for the three -day Mondays and mainly for the Cretans, remains the Rethymnon Where every year the events attract visitors from the surrounding areas, Athens and other parts of Greece as well as some foreign repeaters from the Netherlands, Belgium and France, as the president of the Rethymnon Hoteliers Association, Manolis Tsakalakis, points out. After all, until the opening of the season, which is expected in early April, the beds available are about 2000 in terms of city hotels.
