ITEP: Konstantina Svinou Re-elected President of Greece’s Tourism Research Institute

Greece’s Institute for Tourism Research and Forecasts (ITEP) has announced its new Board of Directors following its general assembly that took place on March 15.

Konstantina Svinou has been re-elected as the institute’s president.

An initiative of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, ITEP is a non-profit institute launched in 1996 to study the hospitality and tourism sector in Greece and other competing countries and provide useful statistics and data to the market. The institute monitors key performance indicators of the Greek hospitality industry through its annual report and seasonal surveys.

“During the last four years, we’ve managed to make ITEP a point of reference for Greek tourism through research, credibility, consistency, continuity, cooperation and targeted data management,” Svinou said.

Svinou highlighted that ITEP has managed to become widely known and for its work to be recognized by Greece’s research and hospitality communities.

Moreover, she said the institute has highlighted the significance of the hospitality sector for tourism and the Greek economy.

ITEP’s new Board of Directors is as follows:

President
Konstantina Svinou

1st Vice President
Kostas Leventis

2nd Vice President
Yiannis Agglos

Secretary General
Christina Tetradi

Treasurer
Charalambos Voulgaris

Members: Apostolos Doxiadis and Makis Zacharatos

Alternate members: Konstantinos Merianos and Dimitris Pollalis

ITEP’s main activities include tourism research; preparation of studies for third parties; consulting services to bodies such as the Hellenic Chamber of Hotel, the Athens-Attica & Argosaronikos Hotel Association and the Hellenic Hoteliers Federation; the holding of conferences to exchange tourism data; and statistics distribution to students and researchers.

Close partners include Professor Giorgos Petrakos, a leading statistics expert who is also the institute’s general director and research associate, Sofia Panousi,