The Athens City Festival by the City of Athens is an annual month-long celebration taking place in the Greek capital every May.
The second edition of the Festival took place in May 2023, having hosted a total of 265 events in 104 locations across the city that attracted over 175,000 Athenians and visitors.
The festival is organized by the Athens Development and Destination Management Agency and features events focusing on culture, entertainment, gastronomy and sports including concerts and parties at parks and squares, thematic routes for walking and cycling, picnics, guided tours to museum and gallery collections, outdoor activities, events for children and more.
Travel Trade Athens is the must-attend annual event for travel professionals, connecting selected international buyers with leading suppliers in the Greek tourism and MICE industry.
Travel Trade Athens is organized by the City of Athens, through the Athens Development and Destination Management Agency, in collaboration with the European tourism association (ETOA).
Its latest 9th edition took place in April 2023. The two-day event hosted more than 1,600 B2B meetings between over 160 representatives from the Greek and international tourism industry.
Since its launch in 2013, Travel Trade Athens has welcomed more than 700 buyers from 35 countries. With the completion of the 9th Trave Trade Athens, the event has supported more than 19,500 B2B meetings between Greek and international tourism professionals.
Posidonia, the international shipping exhibition, has long been established as one of the major calendar events of the shipping industry, and attracts the most influential personalities from the Greek and international shipping community; alongside major companies and organisations active in all sectors of the shipping industry. The international exhibition Posidonia first took place in 1969 and has been held every two years ever since.
The Athens and Epidaurus Festival is Greece’s leading cultural organisation and one of the oldest continuously running festivals in Europe. Spanning 65 years, the Festival has welcomed some of the greatest music, dance, and theatre artists of the international and local scene, in collaboration with the most prestigious Greek and international organisations, attracting large audiences from around the world.
It’s the marathon that started them all—and on the bucket list of every self-respecting long-distance runner on the planet.
HORECA is a leading international exhibition for the provisioning and equipment of Hospitality and Foodservice companies. The annual event brings together tourism professionals with the supply chain of the Hospitality and Foodservice industry.
The Athens International Film Festival Opening Nights, was founded by the Athens Film Society (a Non-Profit Organisation) with the intention of highlighting lesser-known aspects/genres of independent cinema, introducing audiences to some of the best productions of the year and establishing itself as the ideal launch vehicle for the upcoming movie season. The Festival debuted in September 1995 and continues to thrive today, with screenings held in some of the city’s most atmospheric arts spaces and open-air picture houses.
The city of Athens was chosen for the quality of its cultural activities, supported collectively by the book industry.