Social Tourism: applications for 300,000 beneficiaries start today, detailed procedure

Applications for the Social Tourism Public Employment Service (PES) Employees and Unemployed programme for the play 2026-2027 opens today, offering the accidental for a six-day vacation to beneficiaries.

For beneficiaries, applications volition beryllium submitted according to the past digit of their VAT number, arsenic follows:

-Last digit of VAT number: 0 – Tuesday, 21.04.2026

– Last day of 20.20.202020: 21.20.20.20.
-Last digit of the VAT number: 1, 2 – Wednesday, 22.04.2026
-Last digit of the VAT number: 1, 2 – Wednesday, 22.04.2026

-Last digit of VAT number: 3, 4 – Thursday, 23.04.2026

-Last digit of VAT number: 5, 6 – Friday, 24.04.2026

-Last digit of VAT number: 7, 8, 9 – Saturday, 25.04.2026

-All VAT numbers – Sunday, 26.04.2026
-All VAT numbers – Sunday, 26.04.2026

The programme volition commencement connected May 18, 2026, earlier than ever before, volition tally for 13 months and volition impact 300,000 vouchers, with a fund of €50 million.

With the voucher, which is simply a unsocial fig for each beneficiary and beneficiary individually, beneficiaries tin walk up to 6 nights successful accommodation they take from the “Register of Providers” of DYPA, upon request, with a tiny backstage contribution.

In the islands of Leros, Lesvos, Chios, Kos, Samos & Rhodes, beneficiaries tin enactment up to 10 nights escaped of complaint with zero backstage participation, portion successful the municipalities of Northern Evia and Evros arsenic good arsenic successful Thessaly, but Sporades, they tin enactment up to 12 nights escaped of charge.

The subsidy rates are accrued by 20% for the highest period of August, arsenic good arsenic for the Christmas (15.12.2026 to 14.01.2027) and Easter (23.04.2027 to 09.05.2027) periods. The accrued subsidy is valid passim the twelvemonth for accommodation successful North Evia, Evros and Thessaly, but for the Sporades.

In summation to accommodation successful tourer accommodation, ferry tickets are besides subsidised. The information is 25%, portion for disabled persons the tickets are escaped of charge.

25% of the outgo is covered by the question allowance.
Beneficiaries are:

– Employees with a babelike employment narration nether backstage law

– insured successful the eEFKA connected the ground of a babelike employment narration with contributions to the unemployment subdivision of the DYPA,
at immoderate clip successful the 12 months preceding the deadline for submission of applications; or

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– unemployed persons registered successful the Digital Register of Job Seekers of the DYPA, with a continuous play of unemployment of astatine slightest 3 (3) months arsenic of the closing day of the exertion deadline,
who person an income of up to €16,000 if single, up to €24,000 if married, accrued by €5,000 for each child, oregon up to €29,000 if single, accrued by €5,000 for each kid aft the first.

Applications should beryllium submitted via gov.gr astatine EDO.

Specifically the way is: Home – Employment and Insurance – Compensation and Benefits – Social Tourism Programs (STPs).

The enactment of beneficiaries is based connected the weighting of circumstantial criteria (disabled, azygous parent, fig of children, income, archetypal clip information successful the programme oregon non-participation successful the 2 erstwhile programmes owed to weighting) successful an nonsubjective and transparent mode done the Integrated Information System (IIS) of the DYPA.

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For the archetypal clip this year, parents of ample families are exempted from the moderation process and enactment successful the programme if they conscionable the eligibility requirements.

Workers and the unemployed who are subsidized successful different agency’s societal tourism programme for the aforesaid period, arsenic good arsenic those who, successful summation to disabled persons and parents with galore children, received a cheque successful the 2025-2026 program, cannot enactment successful the program.

Providers of the programme are tourer accommodation and ferry companies.

Providers’ applications are to beryllium submitted from today, 21.04.2026 to 10.05.2026 via gov.gr astatine EO.
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Specifically, the way is: Home – Employment and Insurance – Compensation and Benefits – Social Tourism Providers.

Providers from the erstwhile twelvemonth are automatically added to the Provider Registry, provided they update their eligibility documents.