{"id":42801,"date":"2018-04-21T19:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T16:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/yproshennyi-vezd-na-grecheskie-ostrova-iz-tyrcii-prodlen.html"},"modified":"2018-04-21T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T16:01:06","slug":"yproshennyi-vezd-na-grecheskie-ostrova-iz-tyrcii-prodlen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/yproshennyi-vezd-na-grecheskie-ostrova-iz-tyrcii-prodlen","title":{"rendered":"Simplified entry to Greek islands from Turkey extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5f023ca0cc2855c449aab45ac79da7be.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p>The European Commission has extended Greece&#039;s simplified entry system from Turkey to the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea, including the popular tourist destinations of Kos, Rhodes, Lesbos, Samos, Chios, and others.<!--more--> This year, Russian tourists vacationing in Turkey, as before, will be able to take excursions or multi-day tours to the Greek islands without the need for a Schengen visa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, the simplified visitor scheme for the Dodecanese Islands has been in effect since 2012 and provides short-term (up to 7 days) visas to cruise tourists arriving from Turkey. This visa is not a Schengen visa, does not extend to the rest of Greece, and does not grant entry to other countries. The visa costs 35 euros.<\/p>\n<p>If a tourist plans to spend several days on the islands, they must present a return ferry ticket and proof of payment for a hotel on the island when applying for a visa.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travel.ru\/news\/2018\/04\/18\/260901.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has extended the simplified entry system for Greece from Turkey to the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea, which are popular with tourists.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}