Arcadia goes to the Netherlands. Follow the waymarks.
The mountainous heart of the Peloponnese — the certified Menalon Trail, stone-built villages, farm-to-table gastronomy — coming to the Travel Trade Day in Utrecht.
Just a stone’s throw from the coast, yet an entirely different world.
The Arcadia Hospitality Network brings together guesthouses, farms, artisans and activity providers across the mountains at the heart of the Peloponnese. Our vision is slow and adventure tourism that works twelve months a year — walking, cycling, food and villages, which is precisely what the Dutch traveller goes looking for.
“Et in Arcadia ego”
For five centuries, poets and painters — from Virgil to Poussin — have used Arcadia as shorthand for the pastoral paradise: shepherds, springs, unhurried time. Your clients already know the word. What they don’t know is that it is a real place — a province of fir forests, gorges and stone villages in the heart of the Peloponnese, where the myth of Pan was born. We live there. Come and meet it.
STAY
A quiet escape where every detail invites deep rest.
HIKE
Walk the Arcadia Trails and let the landscape calm your soul.
TASTE
Savour the true essence of Arcadia’s finest flavours.
EXPLORE
Lasting memories through authentic local adventures.
Arcadia Trails — and first pick on two new routes
75 km of certified Leading Quality Trail — the Menalon Trail, the first in Greece — linking Stemnitsa, Dimitsana and the Lousios Gorge with its cliff-hanging Prodromou Monastery. Alongside it we are shaping two new routes with the local communities: Parnon (mountain to sea) and Lykaion (walking through myth). Early partners get first pick of stages, accommodation and logistics.
Ready-made, commissionable itineraries
Ready-made journeys, built with the people who live them — and, just as easily, tailor-made: tell us your dates, pace and interests and we shape the itinerary around your clients. One contact, a full regional supply chain, trade rates for operators.
- The Great City, Slow Roads — Megalopolis, gravel and quiet backroads with our partners the Megalopolis Gravel Classic · 4–5 days
- Slow Menalon — the certified Menalon Trail on foot, village to village: Vytina, Dimitsana and the fir line · 3–4 days
- The Makers’ Table — the wineries of Mantinia, an Arcadian breakfast of hyper-local produce, the cheese artisans · 3 days
The 100% Arcadian Breakfast
Fir and vanilla honey with Protected Designation of Origin, traditional trachanas and hand-made hylopites, crisp PDO Pilafa apples from the Tegea valley. Guests eat exactly what the region grows, cooked unhurriedly by the very people who harvested it — from the field to the table, with the shortest possible footprint.
Myth, stone, and absolute solitude
Stand where the ancients believed the world began. Ancient Lycosura — hailed by Pausanias as the oldest city on earth — and the monumental Ancient Theatre of Megalopolis rest quietly in the landscape, entirely free of tour-bus crowds.
Stone villages, living crafts
Stemnitsa’s silversmithing school, Dimitsana’s gunpowder mills and open-air water-power museum, Karytaina’s Frankish castle above the Alfeios. Villages built of grey limestone, still inhabited, still working.
Year-round product
Hiking and gastronomy in autumn and spring, snowshoe and fireside winters, gorge walks and festivals in summer. No shoulder season — just seasons.
Introducing the Arcadia Destination File
Most coaches drive through Arcadia. Almost none stop. We put together a concise destination file for tour operators and travel agents: eleven member villages spread across three mountain massifs — Menalon/Gortynia, Megalopoli and Parnon — so a programme can sleep in a different landscape each night without long transfers. Inside: our four pillars, drive-time tables from major gateways, and an honest look at what Arcadia is — and is not. We take no commission and do not sell packages ourselves — and we are always happy to arrange fam trips for product managers and press.
Download the Destination File (PDF) →Meet us in Utrecht
Tell us who you are and what you sell, and we will book you a slot on 7 January. We reply within one working day.
Or reach us directly:
- EMAILinfo@arcadiahospitalitynetwork.gr
- PHONE / WHATSAPP(+30) 697-20-20-002
- WHO YOU WILL MEETElias P. Siolis, founding member and authorised representative of the Network
One day, one destination.
A short, deliberate mission: one focused day in Utrecht, for the conversations that actually move product.
One day, at the Jaarbeurs
We come to Utrecht with the people who actually run the guesthouses, the trails and the kitchens — not with a sales folder.
- Meetings by appointment, at a time you choose
- Product, seasons, capacity and trade rates
- Sample itineraries and a tasting of what we bring with us
- Slots are limited — first come, first served
A destination, not a brochure
The network in one place: the four pillars, the members behind them, and produce you can taste rather than read about.
- Jaarbeurs, Utrecht — five minutes from Utrecht Centraal
- The four pillars: STAY | HIKE | TASTE | EXPLORE
- Tasting: PDO honey, PDO Pilafa apples, cheeses, Mantinia wines
- Two new trails on Parnon and Lykaion, still being drawn