Social tourism: when will the application platform open

It’s only a matter of time before the “premiere” date of the program is announced. DYPA “Social Tourism 2023”, which will distribute about 300,000 vouchers for economical or even free holidays in Greece.

The application platform will be launched a little earlier this year. Thus, the beneficiaries and beneficiaries will have more time to organize their holiday as they will be able to use travel vouchers from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2024.

It is noted that the program lasts 12 months, while the length of stay of the beneficiaries is determined from 1 to 6 nights for all regions of Greece, except for:

1. the islands of Mytilene, Chios, Leros, Kos and Evros Prefecture, where you can spend up to ten (10) nights.
2. the islands of Samos and the municipalities of Istiaia – Edipsos and Mantoudi – Limni – Ag. Annas of Northern Evia, where you can spend up to twelve (12) nights.

The voucher is a subsidy to the beneficiaries for their stay in a tourism facility, the nominal value of which is proportional to the region, type, holiday period (seasonal/out of season) and category of the tourism facility. The beneficiaries of the program can be:

• employees with employment contracts
• eEFKA insured in their occupational category and making DYPA contributions (between 01/01/2022 and one day before the application deadline),
• unemployed persons registered in the DYPA digital registry with an uninterrupted period of unemployment (at least three months by the end of the application period).

The “beneficiaries” of the social tourism program are:

a) children of beneficiaries between the ages of five and eighteen,

b) children of beneficiaries aged 18 to 24,

c) children of beneficiaries over 18 years of age with a disability of 67% or more, indirectly or directly insured in connection with this,

d) spouses of beneficiaries, if they are indirectly insured family members,

e) accompanying persons.

Detailed information on the page https://rua.gr/podpischikam/gosudarstvennye-uslugi/7561-sotsialnyj-turizm-pr-grammata-ioiut-urism-u-dupa.html

The amount of the subsidy for ferry tickets:

• for adults and children – 50% of the planned cost of the economy class for the corresponding period of the route,
• for children with many children, a 50% discount is provided,
• for the disabled, a 50% – 60% discount, depending on the cost of the economy class provided for the category of persons ΑμεΑ for the corresponding period of the route.

Who “loses” the voucher
Outside the social tourism program for the period 2023-2024 there are beneficiaries who received the opportunity of social recreation within the framework of social tourism programs in the previous period (last year), regardless of whether they took advantage of this benefit or not.

However, those beneficiaries who belong to the category of persons with disabilities, with a disability of 50% or more can participate in the programs for two periods in a row.

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