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Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis (photo) and Citizen Protection Minister Mihalis Chrysohoidis caused controversy in April in regards to proposals and plans to crackdown on riots, illegal immigration and organized crime in the Greek capital.
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Athens’ Demonstrations And Illegal Immigrants In The Spotlight

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis sparked controversy last month when he proposed draft legislation aimed to curb disruptive protest rallies and ban chemical use throughout demonstrations in Athens’ city streets, the Greek press reported. A team of constitutional lawyers and human...
Posted On 01 May 2012
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UK Travel Federations Urge Greece To Save Its Image

Consumers in the UK are choosing alternative destinations for holiday this year as a result of the constant negative publicity focused on Greece (which consumers see as not just Athens but the islands too), according to an open letter sent to Greek officials last month by three...
Posted On 01 Apr 2012
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Athens’ Hotels See Poor Occupancy Results

Hotels in the Greek capital saw a 6.1 percent revenue drop for the first eight months of the year while Attica is going through two of the most difficult months of the year (September-October) that will determine the size of the losses, according to the Athens-Attica Hoteliers...
Posted On 01 Nov 2010
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Athens’ hoteliers expressed their frustration last month because Joanna Despotopoulou, president of 2011 Special Olympics Greece (seen above with Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis at a past Special Olympics event), excluded hotels of the city’s commercial center from suggested athlete accommo­dation.
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Athens’ Hotels Not Suitable For Special Olympic Athletes

The exclusion of Athens city center hotels from suggested athlete accommodation would be a tombstone for Athens tourism, the Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association stressed last month in a letter to Joanna Despotopoulou, president of the Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens...
Posted On 01 Oct 2010
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Athens Hotels Experience A Cruel Summer

Tourism revenue in the Greek capital during August decreased by 14 percent following a 15 percent drop in July, Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association President Yiannis Retsos recently told Greek journalists.
Posted On 01 Oct 2010
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Tourists enter a Hop On Hop Off bus for a city tour of Athens last month. Besides a heat wave, August did not present problems that would affect the stay of foreign visitors in Athens. However, this was not the case during the previous months. The latest GBR Consulting report listed obstacles that stand in the way of tourists visiting the Greek capital, such as the “ghettoization” of the historic center and the non-access to archaeological sites, roads, ports and hotels due to continuous blockade operations of Greek unionists.
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Overnights And Revenue Down At Athens-Attica Hotels

Athens suffered the biggest losses during the first seven months of the year in regards to the number of tourists visiting Greece, the latest figures released by the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) showed.
Posted On 01 Sep 2010
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It’s not a secret that many areas around Omonia Square (photo) are inaccessible especially at night, due to “shady” figures. According to press reports, many tourists this season have fallen victims to muggings in the city center.
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Tourists Have Second Thoughts On Visiting Athens

The revenue of Athens-Attica hotels (3-, 4-, and 5-star) fell by 3.6 percent from last year’s January-June period as a result of a 1.2 percent drop in the average hotel occupancy rate and 2.4 percent drop in the average price per room, according to the latest study of GBR...
Posted On 01 Aug 2010
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The day after the 5 May protest was “clean-up day” for the luxury Grande Bretagne Hotel on Syntagma Square as the day before its windows were smashed once the riots outside of Parliament began to heat up. Tim Ananiadis, the hotel’s general manager, told the press that the Greek government should become concerned and immediately transform Athens into a “safe city.”
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Athens Hoteliers Up Against Mass Cancelations

Almost two weeks after the violent anti-austerity protests in Athens center on 5 May, during which three people died in a fire set by self-styled anarchists, some 28,000 hotel room reservations were canceled in the Greek capital and the trend is steadily rising, Athens-Attica...
Posted On 01 Jun 2010
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SAAE On AIA’s High Charges

The luxurious status of the most expensive airport in Europe must end, according to the Hellenic Association of Airline Representatives (SAAE) in regards to Athens International Airport’s (AIA) high aviation charges.
Posted On 01 Jun 2010
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Athens Hotels Show Low Occupancy In Q1

Athens hotel revenue decreased by seven percent during the first quarter of 2010 with the average revenue per available room shaped at 49.46 euros, according to official statistics of the Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association in regards to hotel occupancy for the first quarter of...
Posted On 01 Jun 2010
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VAT Hike Puts A Damper On Greek Tourism

The government’s effort to solve Greece’s fiscal problems will not be successful if not accompanied by measures to support tourism, President of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) Nikos Angelopoulos recently said in a letter to Finance Minister Yiorgos...
Posted On 01 Apr 2010
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Hotels In Athens Get Some Space

The Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association announced last month that it has finally succeeded to obtain free space in front of the city's hotels to facilitate the comfortable entrance and exit of tourists to and from taxis, buses, coaches and cars.
Posted On 01 Oct 2009
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A travel office in downtown Athens damaged during the difficult weeks of December. Such images circulated globally and tarnished the image of the Greek capital. Photo: Christos Mathioudakis
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Athens Hotel Occupancy Tumbles in December

Overnight accommodation in Athens saw a 25.9 percent drop in all hotel categories in December 2008 when compared with the year before, the Athens-Attica Hoteliers' Association said recently.
Posted On 01 Mar 2009
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2008-2005 Comparison on Satisfaction Ratings.
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Attica Hotels Study Results a Disappointment for 2008

The president of the Athens-Attica Hoteliers' Association, Yiorgos Tsakiris, recently presented the results of a study on Attica hotel progress as well as the level of customer satisfaction for hotels in Attica.
Posted On 01 Jan 2009
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