In its announcement, the Messinia Hoteliers Association welcomes the film’s production team “Odyssey” of the award -winning director Christopher Nolanwhose shooting began yesterday and is expected to be screened in cinemas on July 17, 2026.

“As mentioned in corresponding productions, the increasing interest in visiting places where films have been shot, opens, through the film industry, an important opportunity in promoting destinations with significant benefits for Pylos and Messinia. This is a new form of tourism we welcome, as according to a study by TCI Research, 80 million travelers choose their destination based on movies and television series, with the number of travelers visiting a destination after watching a film, having doubled over the past five years.

The business world bets a lot in this production, as it expects the film to boost Greece’s position on the international film map, attracting tourism and investment. The film is expected to boost the local and national economy by promoting the country’s landscapes worldwide and the mobilization of hundreds of local professionals and businesses who were out of the winter and suddenly gaining unexpected economic benefits, which can lighten the unbearable costs, ” emphasize in their announcement.

The excellent production will travel Pylos and other areas of the Peloponnese around the world, thanks to the impressive cast with Hollywood actors Matt Damon in the role of Odysseus, Anne Hathaway, who plays Penelope, Tom Holland, Tom Holland, Athena and Robert Pattinson as Neptune.

Co -producer in the film is the Christos Constantakopoulosson of the legendary Captain Vasilis Constantakopoulos, a man of art with international parchments, to whom we address our warm thanks for the projection he will give to the Pylos and Messinia region, highlighting her important historical backgrounds. He is the one who contributed as a producer to Richard Linklater’s film “Before Midnight”, which was also shot in Messinia, as well as many others that stood out in world cinema.

“Cinema screening plays an important role in Greek tourism with the promotion of areas, as has been the case with similar films such as Navarone cannons that made Rhodes, the child and the dolphin that screened Hydra and with the film” Mamma Mia! ” They contributed to the tourism development of Greece. We are confident that the new production of Pylos will have the same positive impact, as the first image of Matt Damon embodied Odysseus through the official account of the film has been released last month. “In a statement, the president of the Messinia Hoteliers Association, Dimitris Karalis, adds:

“It is an opportunity for the competent agents of the Greek state to turn their interest in similar initiatives that can highlight areas remaining in tourism development in order to become popular tourist destinations such as Messinia and the Peloponnese in general.”