{"id":3705,"date":"2026-05-03T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2026-05-03T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:40:00","slug":"social-tourism-2026-the-platform-closes-for-employees-from-tomorrow-applications-for-oaee-pensioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3705","title":{"rendered":"Social Tourism 2026: the platform closes for employees &#8211; From tomorrow, applications for OAEE pensioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline to apply for the Social Tourism 2026 programme is today, Sunday (3\/5).<\/p>\n<p>The platform will remain open until midnight for <strong>private sector<\/strong> employees, insured with <strong>EFKA<\/strong> and registered unemployed persons of DYPA.<\/p>\n<p>After three extensions, due to technical problems caused by the high volume of applications that crashed the platform, the process is being completed today. <\/p>\n<h3> <strong>Over 340,000 applications for Social Tourism<\/strong><br \/> <\/h3>\n<p>According to official figures, applications have exceeded <strong>340,000<\/strong> for the granting of <strong>300,000 vouchers<\/strong> to beneficiaries. <\/p>\n<p>The <strong>&#8220;Social Tourism&#8221;<\/strong> program has been extended this year to <strong>13 months<\/strong> (starting May 18, ending June 30, 2027). <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">   <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h3> <strong>Series for retired freelancers<\/strong><br \/> <\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<p>From tomorrow, Monday 3 May, the application process for retired freelancers (t.OAEE) starts. The application process of the interested beneficiaries is done on the website: https:\/\/www.gov.gr\/ipiresies\/ergasia-kai-asphalise\/apozemioseis-kai-parokhes\/programmata-koinonikou-tourismou-gia-suntaxioukhous-eephka-proen-oaee and will last 9 days, with a deadline for completion of applications on 13 May. <\/p>\n<p>The program will also have a duration of <strong>13 months<\/strong>, with an anticipated start date of <strong>June 1<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Note that on the islands of <strong>Leros, Lesvos, Chios, Kos, Samos and Rhodes<\/strong>, beneficiaries can stay up to <strong>10 nights for free<\/strong>, with zero private contribution, while in the municipalities of <strong>Northern Evia<\/strong> and Evros<\/strong>, as well as in <strong>Thessaly<\/strong>, except Sporades, they can stay up to <strong>12 nights free of charge<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Today, Sunday (3\/5), the deadline for submitting applications for the Social Tourism 2026 programme is today (3\/5).<\/p>\n<p>    The platform will remain &#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}