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George Venieris, executive chef of the Athens-based Electra Palace, whisks up a Greek breakfast at Xenia's “Kalimera! with taste” event. The event showcased the talent and the creativity of seven young chefs in respect to creating innovative breakfast ideas from a “destination dining” point of view.
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Hotel Chamber To Open The Way For Gastronomy Tourism

Greek breakfast will be established in all hotels of the country as a start of the promotion of Greek cuisine as one of the most key representative forms of Greek tourism, Hellenic Chamber of Hotels representative, Yiorgos Pittas, said recently.
Posted On 01 Jan 2011
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AIA General Manager Yiannis Parashis and GNTO President Nicolas Kanellopoulos during the signing of the memorandum of cooperation last month.
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GNTO And AIA Sign Memorandum Of Cooperation

The Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) and the Athens International Airport (AIA) signed a memorandum of cooperation last month that aims to utilize the potential of air transport, through coordinated joint actions, as a basic axis for the development of tourism products...
Posted On 01 Jan 2011
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“Kalimera! with taste” event will bring together several of Greece’s talented chefs who will present their ideas on creating an authentic Greek breakfast menu.
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Gastronomy Tourism Promoted At 42nd Xenia

The 42nd Xenia exhibition (26-29 November) will host the food event “Kalimera! with taste” at the Metropolitan Expo center at Athens International Airport.
Posted On 01 Nov 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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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 International Airport last month reported improved passenger traffic and air flight figures.
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AIA Reports Positive Q1 Figures

Despite difficulties the air transport industry is facing due to the crisis, Athens International Airport (AIA) Eleftherios Venizelos last month reported improved passenger traffic and air flight figures.
Posted On 01 Jun 2010
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Irish low cost carrier Ryanair launched “guaranteed lowest fares” on six new routes to the Greek destinations of Kos, Rodos and Volos.
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Ryanair Enters Greek Market, Not Athens

Irish low cost carrier Ryanair recently announced the launch of “guaranteed lowest fares” on six new routes to the Greek destinations of Kos, Rodos and Volos.
Posted On 01 Apr 2010
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AIA Freezes Airport Charges For 2010

As all predictions indicate another difficult year, Athens International Airport’s initiative to freeze all airport charges for 2010 aims to the financial support of our airline-partners, the CEO of the airport, Dr. Yiannis Paraschis said last month.
Posted On 01 Apr 2010
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AIA Awards Airlines
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AIA Awards Airlines

Athens International Airport (AIA) awarded airlines that recorded the highest passenger development in 2009, a very challenging year for the global industry, during the 10th Airline Marketing Workshop held last month.
Posted On 01 Mar 2010
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Foreign Arrivals To Greece Drop

International arrivals at major airports of Greece for the first five months of 2009 showed a decrease of 8.85 percent over the same period of 2008, the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises recently announced.
Posted On 01 Jul 2009
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Dr. Yiannis Paraschis, CEO of Athens International Airport, and Peter Baumgartner, chief commercial officer of Etihad Airways. In April, the airline won the Skytrax World Airline Award for having the best business class in the world.
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Etihad Airways Launches Athens Flight

The opening of the Athens-Abu Dhabi route is another milestone that marks the strong relations between the United Arab Emirates and Greece, Etihad Airway's chief commercial officer, Peter Baumgartner, recently said at the airline's first press conference in Athens.
Posted On 01 Jul 2009
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New Tourism Measures Support Airlines, Employment

Minister of transport and communications, Evripidis Stylianidis, and minister for employment and social protection, Fani Palli-Petralia, recently announced measures to support the tourism sector.
Posted On 01 May 2009
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British Airways' country commercial manager for Greece, Freddie Stier, cuts the anniversary cake while celebrating the 75th anniversary of its Greek services
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British Airways Celebrates 75th Year in Greece

British Airways recently celebrated its 75th year in the Greek airline industry with the Athens-London flight, and the connection of Thessaloniki in 2005 to the British capital.
Posted On 01 Feb 2009
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Plan for Privatization of All Greek Airports

The interministerial committee for denationalization last month gave the 'green light' for the utilization of regional airports by private investors.
Posted On 01 Oct 2008
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Athens Tourism Before and After the Games

The Athens Tourism and Economic Development Company, in the context of the creation of a ‘tourism observatory’ for the City of Athens, conducted a study entitled ‘Registered Athens Tourism Study—from pre-Olympic to the post-Olympic period: The influence of the Olympic Games and...
Posted On 01 Sep 2008
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“Ports that want to promote themselves must offer a one of a kind experience to travelers,” said Bruce Krumrine, vice president of shore operations of Princess Cruises.
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Cruise Tourism in Greece Begins a New Era

Greece can play a leading role and become a hub for itineraries in the Eastern Mediterranean cruise industry, was the unanimous outlook expressed by all leading representatives of the international cruise industry who attended the recent cruise forum CRUISEinGREECE.
Posted On 01 Aug 2008
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Aviation Crisis to Hit “Eleftherios Venizelos”

The crisis within the aviation market, which has already reached alarming proportions in the USA, is slowly beginning to have an impact on Greece, say representatives from Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos.”
Posted On 01 Aug 2008
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Dong Zhiyi, general manager of Beijing Capital International Airport and Athens International Airport's chief executive and chairman of the Airport Council International Europe, Yiannis Paraschis.
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Beijing & Athens Form Bond

A Memorandum of Brotherhood was signed recently in Beijing between Beijing Capital International Airport, which is preparing to host the 2008 Olympic Games, and Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”, which four years ago had the the honor to welcome and bid...
Posted On 01 Aug 2008
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Skyteam's 8th anniversary, which was held at the Allou Fun Park in Athens. Along with the 15 children from the SOS village were (top left): George Daskalakis, Educator of SOS Villages Vari Attikis; George Zermas, Delta Air Lines Commercial Director for Greece & Cyprus; Nikos Kachtitsis, CSA Agencies Account Manager; Petros Papadakis, Manager of SOS Villages Vari Attikis; Thanassis Cavdas, Korean Air Sales Manager; Iro Passa, Delta Air Lines Account Manager; Antonis Rossolatos, Air France Commercial Director for Greece & Cyprus; Hara Mitsotaki, Athens International Airport Public Relations Manager; Katerina Pollatou, Athens International Airport Airline Marketing Communications & Marketing Dept. Manager and Anny Katsouli, Public Relations Manager of SOS Villages Vari Attikis.
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Sky Team Donates to SOS Children’s Villages

Sky Team aviation alliance (which celebrates its eighth year) together with Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos, recently donated 15,000 euros to the international child welfare organization SOS Children's Villages in Greece.
Posted On 01 Aug 2008
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Dimitris Karagioules, Continental Airlines sales manager for Greece (standing left), spoke at the second seminar organized by the airline for travel agency representatives.
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Continental Airlines Completes Travel Agent Seminar

Continental Airlines recently completed its second educational seminar at Athens International Airport for representatives from some of the biggest travel agents and tour operators in Greece.
Posted On 01 Jul 2008
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