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Prime Minister Wants Athens a Year-round Tourism Destination

Olympic installations will remain in the hands of the state and will leave a lasting legacy by making Attica a year-round tourist attraction and by upgrading the quality of life of local residents, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis said during a recent press call.

Posted On 01 Jan 2005

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Alternative Tourism a Priority

The Hellenic Tourism Organization has set the development of alternative forms of tourism as a priority, the organization's secretary-general, Haris Kokkosis, told a special event on winter tourism that was held just days after the gover-nment’s new development bill was announced.

Posted On 01 Jan 2005

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Yiannis Mihailidis of Hospitality & Tourism Consulting and Advertising, Theodoros Varvias of Event & Conference Organization Team, and Zacharias Kaplanidis of Zita Congress.

Conference Tourism Most Dynamic Greek Tourism Sector

If there is one thing certain as a result of a country holding the Olympic Games it's that conference tourism to that country increases substantially over a five-year period. But excluding that distinct possibility, professional conference organizers insist that the conference...

Posted On 01 Jan 2005

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Maria Daskalantonaki, president of Tourism Research Institute and board member of Greece's biggest hotel chain, Grecotel, with Professor Panayiotis Pavlopoulos, head of research for the institute.

Optimism for Tourism Arrival Increases

Some local tourism professionals, but not all, foresee yet another unhealthy year for Greek tourism because of a weak dollar and stagnant European economies, all of which they say would offset any gains expected from the country's successful holding of last August's Athens Olympics.

Posted On 01 Jan 2005

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Initial Indications for 2005 Tourism Not Especially Optimistic

Members of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises say the initial indications for 2005 do not justify any special optimism and that unless the government speeds up its promised tourism projects, Greece will not be able to take advantage of the successful holding of the...

Posted On 01 Jan 2005

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Senior Travel Highly Profitable for Destinations

Youthful elderly people in Greece, especially when they have a satisfactory pension, are beginning to change the traditional image. They now have a social life as they go to the theater or the cinema frequently, they meet friends for meals, and they travel - to the extent that...

Posted On 01 Jan 2005

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Representatives of the nine-member SkyTeam global airline alliance during last month's seminar on the latest products and services offered by the team of airlines.

SkyTeam Awards Travel Partners

Through a most successful seminar on its products and services, the airline alliance SkyTeam solidified its position last month within the Greek market as one of the most popular teams of airlines preferred by both travel agents and travelers.

Posted On 01 Jan 2005

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Vassilis Dallaris, British Airways' manager for the eastern Mediterranean area, with Marios Moisides, the airline's press officer for Greece.

BA Closes Athens Bookings Department

British Airways, in an ongoing attempt to cut costs, will move its bookings department from its Athens office to a call center on Cyprus.

Posted On 01 Jan 2005

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Attica Voted Best Passenger Line Of The Year In Lloyd’s List Shipping Awards

Attica Group, parent company of Superfast Ferries and Blue Star Ferries, was voted “Best Passenger Line of the Year”in Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards.

Posted On 01 Jan 2005

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The Attica Hoteliers Association, during its recent annual general assembly, unveiled its new Internet site www.athens-atticahotels.com.

Attica Hoteliers Promised New Conference Center By Early 2005

The Taekwondo sports complex on the Athens seaside at Faliron will be turned into a conference center that will be ready by this March, said Tourism Development Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos during the recent annual general assembly of the Attica Hoteliers Association.

Posted On 01 Jan 2005

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All of Greece's state tourism leaders were on hand for the annual press conference that accompanies Philoxenia, but this year there was no official arrival figures announced for 2003.

Philoxenia Celebrates 20th Year

This year's Philoxenia tourism fair, the 20th, was another successful one according to its organizing body, Hel-expo. It announced increases in stand participation and increases in the number of visitors.

Posted On 01 Dec 2004

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Steven Freudmann, chairman of the Institute of Travel and Tourism.

Implementation of Announced Tourism Development Measures Imperative

Europe's tourism specialists seem to be coming around to the view that the era of Greek improvisation is over and that a long-term strategy is evolving. "In 2005, you will see the first recovery signs, but the significant rise will come in the next few years when the results of...

Posted On 01 Dec 2004

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Get Ready for Arrivals from China

Sui Hui, commercial councilor in Greece for China's embassy here, last month told delegates to the seminar "From Athens to Beijing: The Olympic Bridge" that they had best get ready for Chinese visitors, "but first you must get prepared."

Posted On 01 Dec 2004

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The entrance to Greece's WTM stand was continually crowded with visitors and although the pavilion this year was the best and most modern we've seen, some visitors said the could not understand the meaning of

WTM Signals New Start for World Tourism

There were no unpleasant surprises at his year's World Travel Market held in London last month. On the contrary, the tourism fair was again extremely well organized and and a pleasant experience for most. As well, it was a pleasant surprise to see a new, modern pavilion created...

Posted On 01 Dec 2004

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Arrival Decline Continues

In the recent release of their annual study on Greece's tourism sector, the directors of Hellenic Tourism Organization offices abroad estimate that arrivals this year will drop by 5.5% against last year, and that the initial outlook for 2005 is not particularly promising...

Posted On 01 Dec 2004

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Dimitris Koutoulas, a tourism and marketing consultant, presents an in-depth study on conference and visitors bureaus during a recent Heliotopos conference.

Benchmark Survey of Convention and Visitors Bureaus

Α global benchmark survey of convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs) was recently released by Dr. Dimitris Koutoulas, a tourism and marketing consultant based in Athens. This survey explores the operational and financial characteristics of CVBs located mainly outside the USA, thus...

Posted On 01 Dec 2004

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Kostas Konstantinidis of Heliotopos Conferences gave a comprehensive presentation on the in-depth research required before a company can even consider bidding for a meeting or conference and said

Lost Opportunity for Many

Greece's first conference on the meetings industry, organized last month by Kostas Konstantinidis of Heliotopos Conferences, welcomed some 140 delegates. Few of these, however, were hoteliers or regional authority leaders who could have gained valuable knowledge on a sector of...

Posted On 01 Dec 2004

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Dimitris Avramopoulos, Tourism Development Minister

Dimitris Avramopoulos

Tourism is not only our major sector for economic development, but it is also a sector with major social benefits. Our new tourism strategy, which we intend to implement shortly, covers all of Greece and has year-round tourism as its main aim with an emphasis given to alternate...

Posted On 01 Nov 2004

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Haris Kokkosis, President, Hellenic Tourism Organization

Haris Kokkosis

Greece boasts one of the richest ecosystems in Europe, boasts 40 centuries of cultural heritage and is a safe and friendly destination for all tourists. With the latter in mind, our basic aim is the quality improvement of our tourism product along with the development of...

Posted On 01 Nov 2004

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Gerasimos Fokas, President, Hellenic Chamber of Hotels

Gerasimos Fokas

With the successful organization of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, we have entered a new era where Greece, and the Greek tourism sector in particular, has had the red carpet of opportunity laid before it. The Games have strengthened our image abroad and once more Greece has...

Posted On 01 Nov 2004

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