Wine tourism is worth at least €800 million a year in Portugal, but “officially it doesn't exist”

In addition to a four-star hotel, which will have 16 rooms, the five hectares of the tourist complex will include a restaurant.

Organizing the sector as an economic activity is a struggle of the association Apeno, which says it has already done “everything” to legally frame wine tourism, which “now depends only on the will of the Government”

“Talking about Wine Tourism Experiences in Chios” is the theme of the two-day event organized by the Society for Local Development of Chios (ETX), within the framework of the CLLD/LEADER Translocal Cooperation Plan “Organization and Promotion of Wine Tourism”. The project aims to transform the visited wineries into “hubs” connecting the manufacturing sector and agricultural production with tourism. There are currently two wineries operating in C…