{"id":243715,"date":"2021-05-12T13:33:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T13:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/?p=243715"},"modified":"2023-05-16T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T14:06:44","slug":"eot-the-greek-sea-is-a-vast-open-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/en\/2021\/05\/12\/eot-the-greek-sea-is-a-vast-open-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"EOT: The Greek sea is a vast, open museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The goal is to promote diving tourism<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-243716 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EOT-Ag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EOT-Ag.jpg 590w, https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EOT-Ag-480x284.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 590px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The strategy of Hellenic Tourism Organization EOT is the promotion of Greece as an international center of culture and sustainability, underlined the President of EOT, Angela Gerekou, welcoming the start of the work of the 2nd International Conference \u201cDive in Blue Growth\u201d, which is being conducted online from today 12 to 14 May by the European program \u201cMyDryDive\u201d to promote accessibility in areas with underwater cultural treasures.<\/p>\n<p>As the President of EOT explained, the promotion of the underwater cultural heritage, as well as tourism and specifically diving and marine tourism, must go hand in hand with the principles of sustainable development, an idea that is now espoused in Greece .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreek land is a vast, open museum. And so is our sea,\u201d stressed Ms. Gerekou, clarifying: \u201cAsopos Laconia, Ermioni, Lavreotiki, Methoni, Leros, Fourni, Zakynthos, Kefalonia, Falassarna are just some of the many places in the Greek seas. And of course the Sporades Diving Park, a model project, as for the first time in Greece a diving park is accessible to the whole public, through MeDryDive technologies \u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Concluding her speech, Ms. Gerekou pointed out that EOT has already designed an autonomous communication campaign on maritime-diving tourism, while all its digital tools, the Visit Greece and the Visit Greece app, will showcase the wonderful efforts of marine cultural heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal is to promote diving tourism The strategy of Hellenic Tourism Organization EOT is the promotion of Greece as an international center of culture and sustainability, underlined the President of EOT, Angela Gerekou, welcoming the start of the work of the 2nd International Conference \u201cDive in Blue Growth\u201d, which is being conducted online from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-speaking-engagement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EOT: The Greek sea is a vast, open museum - Angela Gerekou<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/en\/2021\/05\/12\/eot-the-greek-sea-is-a-vast-open-museum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EOT: The Greek sea is a vast, open museum - Angela Gerekou\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The goal is to promote diving tourism The strategy of Hellenic Tourism Organization EOT is the promotion of Greece as an international center of culture and sustainability, underlined the President of EOT, Angela Gerekou, welcoming the start of the work of the 2nd International Conference \u201cDive in Blue Growth\u201d, which is being conducted online from [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/en\/2021\/05\/12\/eot-the-greek-sea-is-a-vast-open-museum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Angela Gerekou\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-12T13:33:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-16T14:06:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Greek-sea-is-a-vast-open-museum.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"madmin832\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"madmin832\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/en\/2021\/05\/12\/eot-the-greek-sea-is-a-vast-open-museum\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/en\/2021\/05\/12\/eot-the-greek-sea-is-a-vast-open-museum\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"madmin832\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/#\/schema\/person\/4b6cb9af41913920be679202b9caf89f\"},\"headline\":\"EOT: The Greek sea is a vast, open museum\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-12T13:33:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-16T14:06:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/en\/2021\/05\/12\/eot-the-greek-sea-is-a-vast-open-museum\/\"},\"wordCount\":230,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/en\/2021\/05\/12\/eot-the-greek-sea-is-a-vast-open-museum\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/angelagerekou.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Greek-sea-is-a-vast-open-museum.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News &amp; 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