The host of the European School Chess Championships 2012 will be the excellent G Hotels in Kassandra Halkidiki, one of the most well-known holiday resorts worldwide. Halkidiki is comprised of three peninsulas; Kassandra, Sithonia, Agio Oros and has endless sandy beaches as well as one of the highest records of sunshine in Greece!

The European School Chess Championships 2012 will take place in the Conference Center of Athos Palace****, a member of the G Hotels Group in Kallithea, located on the Kassandra peninsula of Halkidiki. The G Hotels Group holds a dynamic presence for over thirty years within the hotel business, maintaining a leading role in the tourism field of Greece with five holiday resorts. Among them are the 4-star Athos Palace, the 4-star Pallini Beach and the 3-star Macedonia Sun which will all be used for the event. The venue is 80 km (an hour drive) south from the international airport of Thessaloniki.