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You can use LaTeX macros to insert special symbols like `\alpha' to indicate the Greek letter, or `\to' to indicate an arrow. Completion for these macros is available, just type `\' and maybe a few letters, and press M-<TAB> to see possible completions. Unlike LaTeX code, Org mode allows these macros to be present without surrounding math delimiters, for example:
Angles are written as Greek letters \alpha, \beta and \gamma.
During HTML export (see HTML export), these symbols are translated into the proper syntax for HTML, for the above examples this is `α' and `→', respectively. If you need such a symbol inside a word, terminate it like this: `\Aacute{}stor'.