TUI, the parent company of travel agents Thomson and First Choice Travel, said on Thursday that bookings to Greece have been recovering in recent weeks.
British tour operator TUI Travel and its German parent company TUI AG are now one company following an agreement in September on the terms of a 6.5 billion euros merger.
The number of TUI's customers visiting Greece this year increased by 10 percent, according to Peter Long, the CEO of TUI Travel PLC, one of Europe's biggest tour operators.
"Greece is an important destination for TUI, which has been supporting Greek tourism for over 50 years," the managing director of TUI Hellas, Michael Mavropoulos, told journalists during a recent media briefing in Athens.
TUI Travel may expand its hotel activity in Greece, media reports in the country said after the recent opening of a new member of the tour operator's Sensimar hotel brand on Corfu.
Britain's leading tour operators TUI Travel and Thomas Cook recently informed Greek Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni that they feel confident about doing business in Greece and intend to invest further in the country's market.
“Greece has seen an impressive recovery in 2013 and in 2014 we will increase the number of our customers enjoying a holiday in this destination to some 2 million - an increase of nearly 10 percent over this year," the head of TUI Travel PLC, Peter Long, said following a meeting...
TUI tour operators will bring an additional 300,000 tourists to Greece next year, thus exceeding two million visitors, the CEO of TUI Travel PLC, Peter Long, was reported to have said during his recent visit to the country.
The Association of British Travel Agent’s (ABTA) recent congress on Kos gave delegates some tasty food for thought. During the four-day event, which was perhaps the best-organized event ever held in Greece, up-market speakers attempted to foresee the future regarding travel and...
