Corfu Mayor meets Thessaloniki Mayor at Old Town Hall

Yiannis Boutaris is in Corfu as head of a tourism delegation including representatives from Thessaloniki International Fair and Thessaloniki Convention Bureau as well as hoteliers, tourism professionals, university and college representatives and other organizations involved directly or indirectly with tourism.



The event is part of an initiative from the Municipality of Thessaloniki which began in 2013 called "City Diplomacy", which received an award in 2016 from Greek Hospitality Awards. Similar events have taken place in Istanbul, Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Smirni, Milan, Bologne, Tel Aviv, Cologne, Nicosia, Paris, Vienna as well as in Greece in Kastoria, Ioannina, Naoussa and Kalamata.

The purpose of the event, in addition to presenting Thessaloniki as a tourist and business destination, is to exchange know-how in the field of tourism, develop collaboration to strengthen domestic tourism and to encourage the promotion of local products in the Northern Greek market with a view to developing the gastronomical identity of each destination.