Social Tourism 2026: Applications today for specific tax ID numbers (AFM), who the beneficiaries are

The Social Tourism 2026 programme is successful afloat swing, with applications already being submitted via the gov.gr level and nationalist involvement peculiarly high.

AFMs ending successful 1 and 2 person their crook contiguous (22.4.2026) to taxable an exertion for information successful the Social Tourism programme of the Public Employment Service (DYPA) for 300,000 employees and unemployed individuals for the 2026–2027 period. The program, which volition commencement connected May 18, 2026—earlier than ever before—and volition past 13 months, has attracted beardown interest.

Applications are submitted via gov.gr astatine the pursuing physics address, HERE.

Through the Social Tourism program, vouchers volition beryllium distributed, giving beneficiaries the accidental to instrumentality affordable holidays. The 300,000 vouchers person a full fund of €50 million, and each corresponds to a unsocial number. The exertion process volition proceed gradually depending connected the past digit of the beneficiaries’ AFM.

It is noted that yesterday, the archetypal time of the platform’s activation, owed to the monolithic information successful submitting applications, “low speeds” and successful galore cases errors were observed, resulting successful users being asked to effort again.

Specifically, applications volition beryllium submitted according to the past digit of the beneficiaries’ AFM arsenic follows:

Last digit of AFM: 1, 2 – Wednesday 22.4.2026
Last digit of AFM: 3, 4 – Thursday 23.4.2026
Last digit of AFM: 5, 6 – Friday 24.4.2026
Last digit of AFM: 7, 8, 9 – Saturday 25.4.2026

All AFMs – Sunday 26.4.2026

With the voucher, which is simply a unsocial fig for each beneficiary and dependent, beneficiaries tin bask up to 6 overnight stays astatine accommodation of their prime from DYPA’s “Provider Registry,” pursuing coordination, with a tiny backstage contribution.

On the islands of Leros, Lesvos, Chios, Kos, Samos and Rhodes, beneficiaries tin bask up to 10 overnight stays escaped of complaint with zero backstage contribution, portion successful the municipalities of Northern Evia and Evros, arsenic good arsenic successful Thessaly (excluding the Sporades), they tin bask up to 12 overnight stays escaped of charge.

Subsidy rates are accrued by 20% for the highest period of August, arsenic good arsenic for the Christmas play (15.12.2026 to 14.1.2027) and Easter play (23.4.2027 to 09.5.2027). The accrued subsidy applies passim the twelvemonth for accommodations successful Northern Evia, Evros and Thessaly, excluding the Sporades.

In summation to accommodation successful tourer lodgings, ferry tickets are besides subsidized. The information complaint is 25%, portion for radical with disabilities the tickets are free.

Beneficiaries

• Employees with a private-sector babelike employment relationship
• Insured with e-EFKA owed to babelike employment with contributions to DYPA’s unemployment branch, astatine immoderate clip during the 12 months preceding the exertion deadline, or
• Unemployed individuals registered successful DYPA’s Digital Registry of occupation seekers, with a continuous unemployment play of astatine slightest 3 months by the exertion deadline, with income up to €16,000 if single, up to €24,000 if joined (increased by €5,000 per child), oregon up to €29,000 for single-parent families (increased by €5,000 for each kid aft the first)