{"id":418014,"date":"2026-04-30T08:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/418014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:17:18","slug":"greece-targets-wedding-tourism-as-high-value-growth-sector-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/418014\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece targets wedding tourism as high-value growth sector, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kefalogianni_US.jpg\" alt=\"Greece targets wedding tourism as high-value growth sector, minister says\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Kefalogianni_US.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni addressed the Destination Weddings Tourism Forum Greece 2026 and emphasized that wedding tourism is a rapidly growing, and high value-added tourism worldwide, with significant prospects for further growth in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>She also noted that it is associated with longer stays and higher \u00a0spending, and it mobilizes a broad network of professionals and services, creating direct benefits for local communities.<\/p>\n<p>Kefalogianni also said that promoting it serves the strategic goals of the Tourism Ministry for a higher-quality, more sustainable, and more balanced tourism, one that is not concentrated solely in a few months and a few destinations but is spread across more regions of Greece and over a longer period of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni addressed the Destination Weddings Tourism Forum Greece 2026 and emphasized that wedding tourism is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46,2012],"class_list":["post-418014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}