Mountains have been tourist destinations even for the most primitive forms of tourism. Their natural environment and their local cultures attract a very important percent of visitors, worldwide, every year. The region of Souli, and mainly the mountainous region, holds unique natural and cultural characteristics, remaining undeveloped, while, at the same time, the development and dispersion of the touristic activity in the surrounding area are restricted.

The use of apps as e-guides has caused a revolution in the tourism industry. The number of tourists that make good use of these technologies in order to enrich their experiences increases fast. In this paper, a new approach to the development of a tour guide application for the city of Paramythia is proposed. The application is meant to promote the cultural and natural features of the area in an alternative way. Firstly, the current situation in Paramythia concerning e-tourism and popular applications is analyzed.

Play returns in our lives, with multiple extensions beyond entertainment. In educational methods, to boost creativity and brain function. It is essential for all range of ages and can be contemporary, alternative development option for the mountainous area. It can became a means and tool to approach nature, culture and history of the area.

The purpose of this essay is to introduce every potential reader to the idea of place brand and the tools of place branding. It also aims at citing the necessity for every region to create and promote its own place brand in the international but also glocalized market, where regions even of the same country compete for human resources and investments. In addition, this essay focuses on the existing brand of the Municipality of Souli (Epirus, Greece) suggesting ways and methods for a successful place brand and branding, as well as destination marketing for this region.

Death is an integral part of people's lives. Paramythia is the place, where according to ancient mythology, death had a special presence. The "other world" intersects with the real one at one point. A small provincial town in Epirus is the benchmark of metaphysical or non-physical world to ancient Greek mythology and philosophy, but also for the whole of Western civilization born from it. What does this mean today? What is the content of the approach to death in ancient Greek mythology, which survives until today in the folk tradition, especially in the region of Epirus?