Annual Tourism Awards Smash Hit
Posted On 01 Feb 2000
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Tag: 2nd Festival of Greek Tourism, Athenaeum InterContinental, award, c503c, Campell Black, Dimitrios Magioros, Emirates Airlines, Evgenios Yiannakopoulos, Greek Cuisine, Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO), Greek restaurants, Hertz, Manos Travel, Manos Tsatsakis, Middle East, Niki Goulandris, Personality of the Year, Tammy Al Herais, Travel Trade Gazette Greece
Twenty Greek tourism enterprises were honored at the 2nd Festival of Greek Tourism, organized by “Travel Trade Gazette Greece.” The plush event was held in December at the Athenaeum Intercontinental hotel.
Supported by the Hellenic Tourism Organization, this year’s event also featured the handing out of awards to restaurants on Corfu, Santorini, Rodos and Crete, all of which have helped raise the international profile of Greek cuisine. Additionally, Niki Goulandris was named “Personality of the Year” in honor of their contribution to the sector on a general scale.
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- Evgenios Yiannakopoulos (right), secretary general of the Hellenic Tourism Organization, presents the TTG Greece annual award for the best Greek car rental company to Dimitris Magioros, acting general manager of Autohellas-Hertz. 1999 marked both the second year running for the Greek Tourism Festival Awards, organized by TTG Greece, and the second consecutive award presented by the organizer to Hertz as the country's best rent-a-car agency.
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- Campbell Black, general manager of the Athenaeum InterContinental, proudly waves the award he received for the best five-star hotel. It marked the second year in a row that his hotel picked up the award.
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- Tammy Al Herais, manager of the airline Emirates, proudly accepts the award, for the second year in a row, for the best airline in the Middle East.
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- Manos Tsatsakis, publisher of TTG Greece and owner of the Manos Travel group, opened the Oscar-type travel awards ceremony but said that next year he hoped someone else would take over the event.
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- Niki Goulandris accepts her "Personality of the Year" award from Evgenios Yiannakopoulos, secretary general of the Hellenic Tourism Organization.
