Despite Turkish annoyance, Athens moves ahead with protected marine areas as part of a broader strategy to expand conservation, tighten environmental controls and strengthen monitoring in the Aegean

A foreign ministry statement underlined that marine parks are established with purely environmental criteria, and that specific ones have been established in areas under Greek sovereignty

The two-day event is called "EUTourism: Resilience in the Era of the Climate Crisis" and will result in the signing of a document called "The Declaration of Rhodes"

The CEO Sebastian Ebel was in Greece for an event of the Rhodes Co-lab Sustainable Destination initiative, a project of the South Aegean Region, TUI and the TUI Care Foundation