Reimagine Tourism in Greece: Kathimerini’s conference on sustainable tourism returns on November 18 and 19

The Reimagine Tourism inaugural for the promotion of a sustainable and resilient exemplary of tourism improvement successful Greece, is backmost with its third yearly conference, acceptable to take spot connected November 18–19 2025 astatine the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) Lighthouse.

Discussions will revolve astir captious issues such arsenic spatial planning, sustainable practices, infrastructure development, arsenic well arsenic the preservation of earthy and taste heritage. All topics will beryllium examined within the model of a long-term, cohesive argumentation that highlights the request for a unified, strategic attack that will specify the aboriginal of Greek tourism.

At the conference, the recently elected Secretary General of UN Tourism, Shaikha Nasser Al Nowais will present a speech, while Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will prosecute successful  conversation with award-winning writer Victoria Hislop connected Greece’s taste reservoir arsenic a source of nationalist wealth. Also among the planetary guests, Gloria Guevara, erstwhile President and CEO of the World Travel and Tourism Council, will present a keynote code connected “Greece arsenic a Top-Choice Global Tourist Destination.”

Speakers will besides see Minister of Tourism Olga Kefalogianni, SETE President Ioannis Paraschis, CEO of East India Hotels James Riley, Executive Chairman Cruise Division, MSC Group Pierfrancesco Vago, and Deputy Mayor for Tourism astatine the Municipality of Venice Simone Venturini, among galore others. Matteo Sarzana, Head of Airbnb for Italy and Southeast Europe, will stock his insights successful a treatment connected the pressing contented of short-term rentals, while Stathis Kalyvas, Professor astatine the University of Oxford, will enactment successful the thematic league “The Greek Summer Experience: Nostalgia and Reality”. Special accent will besides beryllium placed connected the topic of yachting.

The purpose of the league is to research a tourism ecosystem that enriches the visitor acquisition whilst offering semipermanent benefits to section communities.The vision of the Reimagine Tourism successful Greece inaugural arsenic a whole is focused connected shaping a sustainable and resilient paradigm for tourism that is based connected the revitalization of cities, the empowerment of section economies, and the promotion of Greece’s incomparable earthy and taste heritage.

Learn much astir the initiative: www.reimaginetourism.gr