Ministry of Tourism

More than 280,000 people visited the World of Athens installation at Potters Field Park in London, set up just opposite City Hall at Tower Bridge.

The Ministry of Tourism has launched an integrated communications and promotion programme showcasing Athens with five special events to take place in the USA and Europe in May and June 2009. The effort involves the staging of road shows in the US cities of Chicago and New York, as well as in three European capital cities - London, Paris and Berlin.

Greek MP Kostas Markopoulos assumed his ministerial duties Thursday, 8 January, during a handover ceremony marking the changing of the guard at the Ministry of Tourism.