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Internet Bookings Continue to Rise

Holidaymakers throughout Europe are showing a greater preference for booking travel online. In particular, Western Europe is set to see a dramatic increase in the number of hotel reservations made on the Internet this year.
Posted On 01 Feb 2003
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The “new” Hotel de la Grande Bretagne covers 1.5 acres of prime downtown property and now boasts 290 luxury rooms and 37 suites.
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Athens to Celebrate the Rebirth of Hotel de la Grande Bretagne

On the first of next month, Athenians celebrate the rebirth of the capital's most magnificent lodging unit: The Hotel Grande Bretagne. After spending some 70 million euros during the past year and one-half and literally gutting the old "palace," owners rebuilt the GB, as it is...
Posted On 01 Feb 2003
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Greek Travel Pages will once again attend and exhibit at International Tourism Exchange ITB Berlin. GTP staff will concentrate on promoting not only the company’s publications but also the radical development of www.gtp.gr.
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ITB Tourism Fair Remains Industry Leader

The world's leading tourism exchange, International Tourism Exchange ITB Berlin, remains the industry's number one fair and Greek participation this year again will be substantial.
Posted On 01 Feb 2003
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Georgos Tsakiris, the newly-elected president of the Attica Hoteliers' Association, with his new secretary general, Yiannis Retsos, during their first press call.
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Convention Bureau Top Priority For New Attica Hoteliers’ Association Board

A convention and visitors bureau for Athens, that's the top priority for the new board of directors of the Attica Hoteliers' Association. Already, the board has the support of the Attica Regional Authority. The next step is to convince travel-related associations in the region to...
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Elena Panagiotou, marketing and sales manager for The Athenian Callirhoe Exclusive Hotel, with communications specialist, Spiros Koufalis, during a recent working dinner for the press corps.
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Athenian Callirhoe Beats The Averages

While luxury hotel units in the Athens area fight to keep their heads above water and keep above a 60% occupancy rate, the new kid on the block, The Athenian Callirhoe Exclusive Hotel, boasts rates above 75%.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Aegean Continues Expansion To German Centers

Aegean Airlines is one of the few airlines in the world today that has been able to cut costs drastically, without cutting service standards, over the past 12 months. As well, the private Greek carrier managed to increase revenue in 2002 by more than 14%, to reach 180 million...
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Airlines Double Passenger Compensation

The European Union's transport council recently announced a decision to effectively double the compensation paid to passengers who are unable to be accommodated on the flights on which they are booked.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Greece Supports International Luxury Travel Market Concept

Greece was a strong player in last month's Luxury Travel Market fair held at Cannes. More than 20 Greek companies paid the steep fees required to participate. In all, some 450 exhibitors from around the world worked out of 167 stands.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Piraeus And Thessaloniki Get Lion’s Share Of Port Infrastructure Funds

Greece's major seaports are scheduled to undergo a series of large construction projects designed to upgrade their infrastructure and increase their cargo handling capacity.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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HotelWorld Purchased By VIP International

VIP International Corporation, one of the world's largest reservation service providers through global distribution systems and the Internet, purchased the assets of UK-based HotelWorld Global from Associated Newspapers Group. With the purchase, VIP International increases its...
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Yiannis Evagelou, president of the Hellinic Association of Travel and Tourism Agents; Ghassan Saad, president of the World Association of Travel Agents; Yiannis Patellis, president of the Hellenic Tourism Organization; and Vassilis Niadas, 2004 Games Support general manager.
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WATA Delegates First To Know

Delegates to the recent World Association of Travel Agents annual general assembly here in Athens (November 28 to December 1) felt privileged to be the first to hear how 2004 Games' tickets will be distributed.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Tourism Organization Signs Deal With Visa

The Hellenic Tourism Organization and the Visa credit card company have announced an agreement for a mutual promotion project within the framework of the 2004 Olympic Games.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Greece EU Presidency Features Open Skies Policy

When Greece assumes the European Union presidency on January 1, for a six-month period, its transportation brief will include a member states' agreement to award the European Commission a wide-ranging mandate to negotiate a bilateral USA-EU "open skies" agreement.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Mary Souli, Cel’s managing director, was awarded with the title “Ambassador of Cultural Communication between Mongolia and Greece.”
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Cel Tours Takes On Mongolia

There are times when a visitor to a foreign country feels more comfortable in this new environment there than at his or her home. That's the feeling Mary Souli experienced on her recent trips to Mongolia. She was there to create new package programs for her company, Cel Tours.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Private Home Accommodations’ Program For 2004 Underway

Olympic Games organizer Athens 2004 last month approved two bank-led consortiums, Alpha Filoxenia 2004 and Elliniki Filoxenia, which includes a company of some 100 Greek travel agents, as the official managers of the accommodation program for the 2004 Games. The two consortiums,...
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Worldspan Continues Expansion Efforts In Greece

When global distribution system and travel e-commerce provider Worldspan opened its new full-service branch office in Thessaloniki, it was but a first step in investment plans for the Greek market. Additional investment plans for Greece are imperative in order to build market...
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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www.gtp.gr’s home page.
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New Look, New Engine, New Features

A newly-designed home page, a totally new and powerful accommodation search engine and new features are but a few of the fresh improvements that make GTP's (Greek Travel Pages) new Internet site an exciting place to be.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Tourism Secretary General Dimitris Georgarakis, Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos, Deputy Development Minister Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, and Hellenic Tourism Organization Chairman Yiannis Petellis.
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Development Minister Agrees To Formation Of Private Company To Promote Greece

Once again, the Hellenic Tourism Organization was unable to get its tourism advertising program off the ground as scheduled. Instead of last October, the organization got its 31-million-euro (10.6 billion drachmas) program for 2002 off the ground in mid January with television...
Posted On 01 Feb 2002
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Athens Convention Bureau Taken Off Back Burner

Many years have passed since the local tourism trade called for the creation of a conference and visitor's bureau for the Athens area. Since then, not a single positive step has been taken, but the idea remains as not only a viable one but also a vital one to implement.
Posted On 01 Feb 2002
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Georgos Vernicos, secretary general of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises, Nikos Angelopoulos, vice president of the association, and Georgos Dracopoulos, the association's general manager.
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SETE Pessimistic For Sector Tourism This Year

Nikos Angelopoulos, vice president of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises, told its annual Christmas press gathering that he and the association were not optimistic for tourism possibilities in 2002. He said association sources foresee a possible drop in arrivals from...
Posted On 01 Feb 2002
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