The executives of the Chios Municipality tourism office returned with interesting information to exploit from the Holiday and Spa tourism exhibition that took place in Sofia on March 9 and 11.
The Deputy Mayor for Tourism, Giorgos Christakis, made a series of contacts, while a large number of visitors passed by the pavilion, expressing interest in the island and its beauties.
The conclusions about Chios from the exhibition:
The majority of visitors to the exhibition knew about mastic but did not know the destination and that Chios is the place where it is produced.
Attractive factors for someone from Bulgaria to choose Chios for a vacation are the beaches (e.g. Mavros Gialos which impressed, Agia Dynami, Karfas, etc.), hiking, thermal baths, and rocket warfare.
The local products impressed the visitors at the stand as well as the agents with whom the tourism organizations spoke
For those who now wish to visit individually: the positives are the distance from Thessaloniki with a direct flight and an affordable ticket, and the choice of the ship from Kavala
Focusing on the contacts that the island’s organizations had, the contact with the international show “No Luggage”, which is broadcast all over the world through major channels such as the BBC, stood out. Producer Billyana Trayanova, upon learning about Chios’ participation in the exhibition, expressed her desire for Chios to be the first island from Greece to be featured on the show.
Finally, during the exhibition, very good relations were developed with the Municipality and the tourism office of Serres, which led to the gastronomic “marriage” of bougatsa and mastic, a proposal for twinning and the joint creation of a project concerning student tourism between the two cities during off-season periods.
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