Our Story
We are Truevoyagers (Efthimis Kragaris and Pascal Panagiotidis), travel bloggers, trip planners, but most of all, travelers. Our brand name and our logo are based on Charles Baudelaire's inspitational quote in his book 'Les Fleurs du mal': “But the true voyagers are only those who leave just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, they never turn aside from their fatality and without knowing why they always say: Let's go!”.
In 2016, we created a travel blog to record our travel experiences around the world and give advice to aspiring travelers. Having visited 42 countries and some of the most distant and exotic parts of the planet, we decided to translate our acquired knowledge into a business idea.
What we experienced as visitors abroad was the need for unique personalized activities combined with useful travel services throughout our holiday. We realized that we had to search among many different providers in order to meet our travel needs. Thus, what was missing was a holistic approach to our journey found on a single source.
In 2017, we decided to submit a business proposal to EGG, the largest incubator of new ventures in Greece, created by Eurobank and Corallia. One year later and with EGG’s support, we were at the beginning of our dream: creating unique and personalized activities in Athens and soon in other areas in Greece and abroad, aiming at the creative exploration of each place off the beaten track.
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Founder
Pascal Panagiotidis
Pascal has worked for many years in the Banking sector in Alpha Bank (Greece), Citibank (Spain) and other multinationals such as Verizon, as well as leading companies offering innovative tourism products such as R.C.I. (the world's largest timesharing company). He has worked in 5* hotels (CavoTagoo-Mykonos) and also as a professor at the public K.E.K. of Oreokastro Thessalonikis giving classes of Tourism Management & Marketing to students. With postgraduate studies in the Banking sector and Marketing, he is in charge of contacting external business partners in order to build our tours and activities. He speaks English, French and Spanish fluently.
Founder
Efthimis Kragaris
Efthimis with the appropriate academic background in Journalism, is active in the field of Communication and Modern Media. His experience in social media, blogging and SEO marketing tools (mainly from our travel blog) is particularly useful for suggesting and then adopting the right strategy to promote our business idea through various channels of communication. He is in charge of Digital Marketing and he is responsible for the creation of this digital platform. He speaks 5 foreign languages (including Chinese).
Our Partners
Be My Quest
A start-up, which aims to "revive" almost abandoned villages and areas in Greece, by promoting, creating and establishing alternative tourism activities in places with unique tradition and history.
Press
"Truevoyagers: Two Greeks, having traveled to 42 countries worldwide, plan your next journey!" — Ozon Magazine
Listed among the most influential Greek bloggers in Thea official magazine of Makedonia Palace issue No. 7, Winter 2017-2018.
"Planning our 2017 adventures with Truevoyagers!" — Teapot.gr
"Truevoyagers travel you to the picturesque villages of Arcadia in Greece" - Glow.gr
"Meet Greece through new experiential activities" - Platform.gr
"Truevoyagers: The travel bloggers who redefine the experiential tourism in Greece" — Skywalker.gr
"Truevoyagers: Creating experiences for true travelers" - epixeiro.gr