Promoting Beautiful Greece: World Tourism Day 2023 Greek Photo Competition #WTD2023 🇬🇷 💙 🇬🇷

 

We took this photo of  the Parthenon on Athens' sacred rock, the Acropolis from one of Athens' gorgeous rooftops, just as raindrops were falling on our heads, today #WorldTouristDay2023 and thought it was the perfect photo for our album cover this year. 

 

September 27 is known as World Tourism Day, 

and as always is a great opportunity 

to promote our beautiful Greece -   

THE Tourist Destination -
The ULTIMATE Tourist Destination!

Here at Global Greek World it is the day we launch our Greek Photo Competition every year on our Global Greek World Facebook Page to showcase this magnificent country of ours.

2023 set all sorts of records. 

 it was a wonderful year for tourism in Greece and we are thrilled that so many people chose Greece for their holidays/extended vacations! 

It is almost October and Athens is still full of visitors as are so many other parts of our lovely country.

We are also thrilled that so many of our friends managed to get here again this year for the first time after a long time. 
 We look forward to it being a record year for entries!

 

Thank you all! 

🇬🇷️💙🇬🇷

 

#StaySafe ️

Here goes for our 12th Annual Greek Photo Competition! 

We've set up the album for 2023, now it is over to YOU!

Check it out here

The rules are simple:

Everyone can enter! 

All it takes is a photo that you have taken yourself, anytime, anywhere in Greece that we can add to the album so that people can vote. 

Maximum number of entries per person is 3. 

Send us the photo(s)you would like to enter in the competition either by emailing us directly or by clicking on our Facebook Page, liking it and sending your photo(s) to us via our Facebook Message facility.

You can send in your favourite photos of Greece until the new closing date for entries, Sunday 5th November, extended by a week from Oxi Day, 28 October 2023.

After that voting begins in earnest!

You can vote for all the picture(s) you like...with a 'like'.

The picture with the greatest number of 'Likes' 
when the competition closes (sometime in December) wins....

Stay tuned

 

we would love to be able to give away many great prizes to the winners again this year but we must rely on sponsors as we don't have the necessary financial resources to do this ourselves. 

so...

if you would like to sponsor a prize please contact us.
It's been a great year for our hospitality and travel industry so...

If you are a hotel, resort or part of the hospitality industry in Greece we would particularly love to hear from you! 

What you can offer the winner(s): 

A weekend for two at your establishment, 
A dinner for two at your restaurant, 
an air-ticket to an island, 
boat tickets eg a one day 3 island cruise 
even free entry to one of our wonderful museums,  
a beach towel or a beach accessory 
a Greek-related book, 
a bottle of Greek wine
these are all great prizes!

YOU are the ones we are trying to support! 

 

  A BIG thank you to last year's wonderful sponsors 

 

Sue, The Angelakos Family and their Luxury Cruise Company Enter Maritime Co

 

Angela Bereri 

 

Emons, the publishers of  '111 Places in Athens That You Shouldn't Miss' 

by three of our  talented #GlobalGreek writers,
Alexia Amvrazi, Diane Shugart aka @DianaLizia on Twitter, Diana Farr Louis
and photographer Yannis Varouhakis  

The talented Honorary #GlobalGreek writer Peter Barber, author of
"A Parthenon on our Roof" and "A Parthenon in Pefki"     

for their generosity and their lovely prizes!

so...

 

Start choosing your best pictures....  

 check out your albums, 

digital or otherwise,
and 
send us your entries!

We are waiting! 

Good luck!

Καλή Επιτυχία!

 

Our thoughts are with Peter and Alexandra and all the people who have suffered the devastation to their properties and loss of animals wrought by Storm Daniel followed by Storm Elias. 

Wishing you all strength and courage!

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows!
© GlobalGreekWorld 2009-2023 All Rights Reserved

Promoting Beautiful Greece: World Tourism Day 2022 Greek Photo Competition #WTD2022 🇬🇷 💙 🇬🇷

September 27 is known as World Tourism Day, 

and as always is a great opportunity 

to promote our beautiful Greece -   

THE Tourist Destination -
The ULTIMATE Tourist Destination!

Here at Global Greek World it is the day we launch our Greek Photo Competition every year on our Global Greek World Facebook Page to showcase this magnificent country of ours.

2022 set all sorts of records - it was a wonderful year for tourism in Greece and we are thrilled that so many people chose Greece for their holidays/extended vacations!
We are also thrilled that so many of our friends managed to get here this year for the first time after 3 long and difficult years and we look forward to it being a record year for entries!

 

Thank you all! 

🇬🇷️💙🇬🇷

 

#StaySafe ️

Here goes for our 11th Annual Greek Photo Competition! 

We've set up the album for 2022, now it is over to YOU!

Check it out here

The rules are simple:

Everyone can enter! 

All it takes is a photo that you have taken yourself, anytime, anywhere in Greece that we can add to the album so that people can vote. 

Maximum number of entries per person is 3. 

Send us the photo(s)you would like to enter in the competition either by emailing us directly or by clicking on our Facebook Page, liking it and sending your photo(s) to us via our Facebook Message facility. This year we recommend emailing because for some reason last year, the quality of the photo we ended up with via the Send Message facility didn't do the photo justice at all!

You can send in your favourite photos of Greece until the new closing date for entries, Friday 4th November, extended by a week from Oxi Day, Friday, 28 October 2022 by popular demand.

After that voting begins in earnest!

You can vote for all the picture(s) you like...with a 'like'.

The picture with the greatest number of 'Likes' 
when the competition closes (sometime in December) wins....

Stay tuned

 

we would love to be able to give away many great prizes to the winners again this year but we must rely on sponsors as we don't have the necessary financial resources to do this ourselves. 

so...

if you would like to sponsor a prize please contact us.
It's been such a tough year for our hospitality and travel industry but...

If you are a hotel, resort or part of the hospitality industry in Greece we would particularly love to hear from you! 

What you can offer the winner(s): 

A weekend for two at your establishment, 
A dinner for two at your restaurant, 
an air-ticket to an island, 
boat tickets eg a one day 3 island cruise 
even free entry to one of our wonderful museums,  
a beach towel or a beach accessory 
a Greek-related book, 
a bottle of Greek wine
these are all great prizes!

YOU are the ones we are trying to support! 

 

  A big thank you to last year's wonderful sponsors 

 

 

  The Kiriakakis Family and the Atrion Resort Hotel, 

 

 

Gill Tomlinson Art

and 

 

Emons, the publishers of  '111 Places in Athens That You Shouldn't Miss' by three of our  talented #GlobalGreek writers,
Alexia Amvrazi 
Diane Shugart aka @DianaLizia on Twitter,
Diana Farr Louis
and photographer Yannis Varouhakis  

for their generosity and their lovely prizes!

so...

 

Start choosing your best pictures....  

 check out your albums, 

digital or otherwise,
and 
send us your entries!

We are waiting! 

Good luck!

Καλή Επιτυχία!

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows!
© GlobalGreekWorld 2009-2022 All Rights Reserved

Promoting Beautiful Greece: World Tourism Day 2021 Greek Photo Competition #WTD2021 🇬🇷 💙 🇬🇷

 

 

September 27 is known as World Tourism Day, 

and as always is a great opportunity 

to promote our beautiful Greece -   

THE Tourist Destination -
The ULTIMATE Tourist Destination!

Here at Global Greek World it is the day we launch our Greek Photo Competition every year on our Global Greek World Facebook Page to showcase this magnificent country of ours.

We have chosen one of our favourite sculptures of the philosopher Diogenes and Alexander the Great in #Corinth as the cover for this year's #GreekPhotoCompetition because of its symbolism for our world and humanity at large... that we shouldn't let anyone, no matter how great and mighty they are deprive us of something they cannot grant us...

 

The philosopher Diogenes asks the great Alexander to move a little because he is blocking his sun... Alexander had gone to visit him in Corinth to ask hm what wish of Diogenes he could grant him... and his response is reported to have been

 

'Μη μου στερείς αυτό που δεν μπορείς να μου χαρίσεις'

 

'Don't deprive me of something you cannot give me...'

It becomes even more meaningful when we think that 2021, understandably, was much better than 2020 but still a difficult year for Greece's tourist arrivals. 

 

The Covid19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the entire world's travel plans and put lives and businesses on hold around the world as almost every country prioritised saving lives. 

Even though many of our friends still couldn't get here because of their countries' #Covid19 travel restrictions,  their hearts were with us here in Greece.
 

Thank you all! 

🇬🇷️💙🇬🇷

 

#StaySafe ️

Here goes for our 10th Annual Greek Photo Competition! 

We've set up the album for 2021, now it is over to YOU!

Check it out here

The rules are simple:

Everyone can enter! 

All it takes is a photo that you have taken yourself, anytime, anywhere in Greece that we can add to the album so that people can vote. 

Maximum number of entries per person is 3. 

Send us the photo(s)you would like to enter in the competition either by emailing us directly or by clicking on our Facebook Page, liking it and sending your photo(s) to us via our Facebook Message facility. This year we recommend emailing because for some reason this year, the quality of the photo we end up with via the Send Message facility doesn't do the photo justice at all!

You can send in your favourite photos of Greece until the closing date for entries - Oxi Day, Thursday, 28 October 2021. Please note that , now revised to Friday 5th November because of the issues with the download quality in Facebook.
After that voting begins in earnest!

You can vote for all the picture(s) you like...with a 'like'. 

The picture with the greatest number of 'Likes' 
when the competition closes (sometime in December) wins....

Stay tuned

 

we would love to be able to give away many great prizes to the winners again this year but we must rely on sponsors as we don't have the necessary financial resources to do this ourselves. 

so...

if you would like to sponsor a prize please contact us.
It's been such a tough year for our hospitality and travel industry but...

If you are a hotel, resort or part of the hospitality industry in Greece we would particularly love to hear from you! 

What you can offer the winner(s): 

A weekend for two at your establishment, 
A dinner for two at your restaurant, 
an air-ticket to an island, 
boat tickets eg a one day 3 island cruise 
even free entry to one of our wonderful museums,  
a beach towel or a beach accessory 
a Greek-related book, 
a bottle of Greek wine
these are all great prizes!

YOU are the ones we are trying to support! 

 

  A big thank you to last year's wonderful sponsors

Sue, The Angelakos Family and Alpha Beach Hotel, 

and 
Matt Barrett Econopouly at GreeceTravel

for their generosity!  

 

Start choosing your best pictures....  

 check out your albums, 

digital or otherwise,
and 
send us your entries!

We are waiting! 

Good luck!

Καλή Επιτυχία!

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows!
© GlobalGreekWorld 2009-2021 All Rights Reserved

World Tourism Day 2013 Greek Photo Competition: And the Winners are...

1st prize 
Dimitris Asf (Greece)

Beautiful Oia, Santorini,  Greece 

 2nd prize
Uschi Niemann (Greece via Germany)

Cute Cookie  from  the Corfu Donkey Rescue

3rd prize
Rebecca Elia (USA)

The  Magnificent Parthenon and Plaka from Monastiraki

 4th Prize

Piotr Leydo (Poland)
Amazing Amorgos, Greece  from the air

Congratulations to our prizewinners Dimitri, Uschi, Rebecca and Piotr!  

The Prizes

1st Prize

Dimitri wins a very beautiful Greek inspired print of his choice from the workshop of Georgia Pistolis,  one of our very talented Global Greek artists, who lives and works in South Carolina in the USA but whose gorgeous artwork is largely inspired by her homeland- and ours - Greece!   

Dimitri gets to choose one of the four prints shown below:

Art by Georgia 
You too can purchase one of Georgia's wonderful Greek themed artworks by clicking here

2nd Prize 

Uschi wins a beautiful piece of sterling silver 925 with authentic 'good luck eye" glass bead (mati) for herself or her pet from The Lovepaw Collection in the USA

 

Apollo from the Zeus Collection

Designed by one of our Global Greeks, and expertly Made in Greece by one of Greece's fine silversmiths , this beautiful piece of jewellery has been donated by Olympia Zacharakis of Miami, creator and founder of The Lovepaw Company, specialising in fine pieces for pets and/or their owners!

Olympia's Lovepaw Company photos can be found on Facebook  while her website  is being upgraded

3rd Prize

Rebecca  wins a one year subscription to  Odyssey, the World of Greece Magazine so she can keep current with what goes on in our Global Greek World when she is not visiting. 

Founded by dynamic Global Greek Gregory A Maniatis, and with a readership of over 60,000 in 35 countries Odyssey is one of the best of its kind - a bimonthly, independent magazine about Greece and Greeks around the world. Odyssey reports on the spectrum of the Greek experience-culture, politics, society,and business in Greece as well as issues of interest to diaspora Greeks and Philhellenes.

In addition to interviews, photo essays, travel stories, and commentaries, Odyssey also publishes annual guides to hotels, restaurants,summer events, and courses in Greece or in Greek Studies. It is sold at selected kiosks in Greece and elsewhere as well as through subscription. 

Click here to read more about Odyssey - the World of Greece Magazine

4th Prize

Piotr wins a copy of Nikos Petousis' fascinating biography
 From Athens to Papakura 
which tells the story of a Greek boy, Nikos Petousis, born in 1936 in Athens, Greece, who having lived through both WW2 and the Greek Civil War in his hometown, decided to seek sponsorship from a New Zealander whom his family had helped during the war.  

Nikos carved a successful career for himself in Auckland. When he retired he accepted the position of Honorary Consul for Greece and works hard, continuing to enhance the already strong relationship between the two countries.

One of the events that Nikos recalls with pride, is the farewell to the New Zealand Olympians before the team set off for the Greek Olympic Games in 2004, an event we are happy to have supported from our position on the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games.

For all those interested, you can purchase your own copy of Nikos' great biography from Amazon

THANK YOU, ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟYΜΕ, 
to 
Georgia, Olympia, Nikos and  Odyssey, The World of Greece Magazine 
for their generosity in donating these wonderful prizes for our winners
and

a very big 
THANK YOU - ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟYΜΕ
to all those who entered their photos 

and made this competition come alive with...Greece 
and their love for Greece! 

Greece is Greece's No 1 product.
It deserves to take its rightful place in the world...
right at the top! 

Now sit back and enjoy our video of all the stunning photos!

At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows!

 © GlobalGreekWorld 2013 All Rights Reserved