Tourism minister to make official visit to Israel on February 6

Tourism Minister Olga Kefaloyianni will be making an official visit to Israel on February 6, during which she will be received by Israeli President Shimon Peres. 

Kefaloyianni will be meeting in Tel Aviv with Israeli Tourism minister Stas Misezhnikov, for talks focusing on tourist cooperation between Greece and Israel. On the same day she will be visiting the Jerusalem Patriarchate where she will be received by Jerusalem Patriarch Theofilos.

The Tourism minister will also be going to Bethlehem on Wednesday, where she will be having a meeting with the Tourism minister of the Palestinian Authority Roula Maayah.

During her two-day stay in Israel, the Tourism minister will be having meetings with tour operators and will also be giving interviews to major mass media means.