Dominican Republic

Russian tourists to Greece increased by 16.5% in the first half of 2017, according to official data by the Russian Statistical Services (Rosstat). The data, analysed by Russian Tour Operators (ATOR), showed that the total number of Russians that travelled abroad amounted to 17.12 million, compared to 13.28 million last year.

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The storied Sea Cloud sails in Nafplio's harbor in the northern Peloponnese, on Friday. Now a cruise ship, the four-masted barque served in WWII as a weather ship for the US Navy and was the country's first racially integrated warship since the Civil War. It was also owned for a few years by Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo. [Evangelos Bougiotis/ANA-MPA]

The battle is on in Barcelona, Spain's popular Mediterranean city where two airlines have started competing for passengers in the emerging trend of low-cost, long-haul flights.

The first flight operated by Level -- a new carrier created by IAG, the parent company of British Airways and Spain's Iberia -- took off on June 1 from El Prat airport for Los Angeles.

The host hugely successful reality TV show “Survivor” aired on Skai TV, Sakis Tanimanidis had shot to fame, which has inevitably led to his private life coming more into the spotlight. He is in a relationship with a beautiful and very intelligent girl named Christina Bompa.

Istanbul is set to become home to a brand new jazz festival at Zorlu PSM to bring the genre at the forefront of the arts and culture scene of the city, looking at it from a broad perspective while adopting the polyphony of it. 

Beautiful TV hostess Eleonora Meleti has landed in the Dominican Republic to prepare for the production of the new TV show on Skai TV, which will be hosting the players voted out of reality show “Survivor” on the same channel. The blonde presenter is settling down and shared some photos on instagram with her followers of the hotel she will be staying at.

Two contestants on Skai TV's hit reality show "Survivor" were injured in a road accident on Thursday in the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, where the game is taking place.

One of the contestants, Irini Kolida, broke three ribs and has abandoned the game and will return to Greece, reports said.

The other player, Marios Priamos Ioannidis, sustained a neck injury.

Greek authorities are planning the creation of pre-departure detention facilities on the eastern Aegean islands, where thousands of migrants and refugees remain stranded, so as to accelerate returns to Turkey.

Turkey and the Dominican Republic have agreed to boost cooperation on tourism, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said during a visit to the Caribbean state on Feb. 2.        

Speaking in a joint news conference following a meeting with his Dominican counterpart, Miguel Vargas, Çavuşoğlu said the agreement aimed to increase tourist flow.        

Turkey's ambassador to Argentina on Jan. 30 hailed the political and economic importance of Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu's four-nation South American tour this week.        

Meral Barlas said Argentina has the third-biggest economy in South America and stressed the importance of numerous areas where Turkey can have an economic relationship with Latin America.