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Ribbon-cutting ceremony of NEXUS, 1st International Alternative Tourism Exhibition.
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NEXUS, 1st International Alternative Tourism Exhibition

Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis and Reverend Dodonis Chrysostomos cut the inauguration ribbon of NEXUS, the 1st International Alternative Tourism Exhibition, held 29 March-1 April at the Mediterranean Exhibition Centre (MEC) in Paiania.
Posted On 01 May 2012
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The second annual meeting of the European Hotel Managers Association (EHMA) Greek-Cypriot Chapter at the Athens Plaza.
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Deputy Minister Attends Hotel Managers Meeting

Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis (center) last month attended the second annual meeting of the European Hotel Managers Association (EHMA) Greek-Cypriot Chapter at the Athens Plaza.
Posted On 01 Apr 2012
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Greece, Turkey To Deepen Cooperation

Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis last month held a meeting with Izmir Chamber of Commerce chairman Ekrem Demirtas on the development of Greek-Turkish economic relations with a particular emphasis on business and tourism.
Posted On 01 Mar 2012
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George Nikitiadis, Greek deputy culture and tourism minister and Antonio Tajani, vice-president of the European Commission, responsible for industry and entrepreneurship, last month signed the memorandum of understanding of the “50.000 tourists” pilot initiative.
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Greece Signs Up For European Commission Project

“It is very important for our country that we are participating for the first time in a consistent European initiative that aims to attract tourism to Europe,” Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis said last month after signing a memorandum of understanding to...
Posted On 01 Mar 2012
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Religious Tourism To Be Promoted In Greece

Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis recently presented the conclusions of a report on the development and promotion of religious and pilgrimage tourism in Greece.
Posted On 01 Feb 2012
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Greek Restaurants In The U.S. To Promote Tourism

Greek tourism will be promoted via 4,500 restaurants in the United States based on an initiative to be carried out by the “Alliance for Greece”* group, Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis announced at an event held at the Acropolis Museum in November 2011. Under...
Posted On 01 Jan 2012
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HAPCO Urges Government To Pay More Attention To Conference Tourism

“The socio-political events and the effects of the economic crisis that has plagued our country and its citizens, has transformed Greece into an undesirable destination that frightens organizers, sponsors and conference delegates and presents Greek professionals as unreliable and...
Posted On 01 Jan 2012
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Visa Centers To Open In Turkey

Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis last month paved the way for the creation of visa centers in Antalya and Bodrum (Halicarnassus) so to facilitate the movement of tourists to Rodos and Kos and other islands of the Dodecanese.
Posted On 01 Dec 2011
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Limited Participation At This Year’s Philoxenia

The Greek tourism sector may have been somewhat reluctant in participating in the 27th Philoxenia International Tourism Exhibition due to the country's financial crisis but according to Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis, 2011 could be easily labeled as...
Posted On 01 Dec 2011
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George Nikitiadis, Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister
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George Nikitiadis

The 27th Philoxenia finds Greek tourism in an ascendant course. The significant increase in arrivals, as well as in revenue, shows that we are in a positive direction.
Posted On 01 Nov 2011
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Athens Hosts 8th Greek-Turkish Forum on Tourism

President of the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agencies (HATTA) Giorgos Telonis, Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis, Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos and his Turkish counterpart, Ertugrul Gunay during the 8th Greek-Turkish Forum on...
Posted On 01 Nov 2011
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Ministry Launches Tender For Mytilini Port

The General Secretariat of Tourism recently launched a tender to select an operator for the port in Mytilini who would be granted the use, utilization, management, administration and operation of the port for a period of 40 years.
Posted On 01 Sep 2011
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British Report On UK Arrivals To Greece

This year fewer incidents occurred that concerned British tourists in Greece who needed assistance from the consular or Greek authorities, according to the results of an annual report of the British Department for British tourists traveling abroad.
Posted On 01 Sep 2011
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Deputy Minister Holds Talks With Russian Tour Operators

Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis met with seven leading Russian tour operators last month and discussed further actions to boost the upward trend of Russian visits to Greece.
Posted On 01 Sep 2011
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Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association President Yiannis Retsos and Grande Britain’s Hotel Manager Tim Ananiadis during the association’s press conference last month. “The issue is not what we lost but what we will lose and unfortunately the problem is not just about hotels in the center as we are losing conferences scheduled for 2012-2013,” Mr. Ananiadis said.
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Protests in Athens Upset Hotel Bookings

Only a few days after the violent anti-austerity protests that took place 28-29 June at Syntagma Square, central Athens, some 8,000 booking cancelations in 20 of Athens hotels were recorded, Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association President Yiannis Retsos told journalists last month.
Posted On 01 Aug 2011
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On 30 June, one day after the clashes at Syntagma Square and with teargas still in the air, tourists took photographs in front of the Greek Parliament and anti-austerity signs and banners. According to a tourism expert, incidents and conflicts are limited to Athens so the rest of Greece would not see losses from tourism.
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Incoming Tourism To Greece On Positive Pace

While the Greek capital counted losses last month in bookings and revenue due to violent protests at Syntagma Square in late June that resulted to some 20,000 cancelations in 21 central hotels in Athens, tourism traffic for the rest of Greece showed positive signs.
Posted On 01 Aug 2011
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The “Tourism Investment Conference: Focus on Greece,” was held in Athens and organized by Financial Times with the strategic partnership of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) and the local partnership of Boussias Communications.
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Conference Focuses On Tourism Investment In Greece

The need to promote tourism investment and increase competitiveness in Greece to face the economic crisis was underlined by tourism professionals and experts at the “Tourism Investment Conference: Focus on Greece,” held in Athens last month.
Posted On 01 Aug 2011
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Greece Reshuffles Cabinet, Tourism Unaffected

Pavlos Geroulanos was among the few untouched ministers and remained at his post as Culture and Tourism Minister last month following Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s cabinet reshuffle.
Posted On 01 Jul 2011
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“Small scientific workshops that are conducted at the last minute and are estimated to be enough for the years 2011 and 2012 is the only hope professionals have,” HAPCO’s president Dinos Astras (third from right) said. It is estimated that next year Greece would see a loss of some 15 percent in international conferences, while national conferences are expected to remain on the same levels of 2011 with a possible further reduction.
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Congress Tourism Needs A Boost, HAPCO

The Hellenic Association of Professional Congress Organizers (HAPCO) recently warned representatives of the Greek tourism leadership in regards to the “dangerous” downward course of Greek congress tourism and what ever that implies for the already “plagued” Greek economy.
Posted On 01 Jun 2011
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At a ceremony after Air China’s first flight to Athens International Airport from Beijing, Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis (center) said he was sure the flight would become a “direct, non-stop, seven days a week flight.”
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Beijing Resumes Flights To Athens

Air China launched a new route between Beijing and Athens via Munich on 18 May in an attempt to strengthen ties on tourism and business.
Posted On 01 Jun 2011
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