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Amadeus's new front office system & Vista were lready established in BTI offices in Athens and Thessaloniki, while BTI's staff began training classes in the use of the Amadeus system.

Amadeus BTI Agreement in Full Force

After the initial signing of a cooperation agreement between Amadeus Hellas and Business Travel International early this year, Amadeus quickly began to its new front office system and its Amadeus Vista within the BTI offices in Athens and Thessaloniki.

Posted On 01 May 2004

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Closer Tourism Cooperation Sought Between Russia and Greece

On his recent trip to Russia for the MITT 2004 tourism fair, Tourism Deputy Minister Anastassios Liaskos sought an increase in Greek-Russia tourism cooperation to confront the problems Russian visitors have to acquire the needed visas to vacation in Greece. He said he would...

Posted On 01 May 2004

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Flying Dolphins Back in the Black

After the last few years with red ink on its balance sheet, Hellas Flying Dolphins is back in the black with a net profit for 2003 of some 7.1 million euros, against a loss of 49.3 million euros the year before.

Posted On 01 May 2004

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Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyannis (center) gives the foreign press corps an idea of the works underway to upgrade Lycabettus and other areas of the capital.

Lycabettus Hill Gets Major Facelift

The City of Athens is spending 4.8 million euros to aesthetically redevelop and make more operational one of its most important monuments, Lycabettus Hill, which hovers 1,000 feet over the city. All renovation works on the hill will be completed by the summer, and all works will...

Posted On 01 May 2004

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On hand to award the 500,001 passenger on Blue Star's Piraeus-Chania route were company executives, including Attica Enterprises' (Blue Star's major shareholder) chief executive officer, Alexander Panagopoulos (right).

Blue Star Sets Record Passenger Number

Blue Star Ferries announced that it broke the half a million mark in passengers carried on its Piraeus-Chania route. On March 24 the Greek ferry line's electronic Check-in system on board encountered the route's 500,001 passenger as she boarded with her ticket in hand.

Posted On 01 May 2004

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WTO Places Travel Advisories On Priority List

The World Tourism Organization's quality support and trade committee met last month for the first time under the new chairmanship of Portugal and addressed the issues of travel advisories, trade liberalization and health in international travel.

Posted On 01 May 2004

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Tourism Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos, 51, a political science major from Athens Law School, began in the diplomatic corps in 1980 and from 1995 to 2002 was the mayor of Athens. He is married, has two sons and speaks English, French and Italian as well as his native Greek.

Tourism Sector Gets Promised Ministry

As promised, the new government has created a Greek tourism ministry. The newly appointed minister, Dimitris Avramopoulos, and his deputy, Anastassios Liaskos, for the moment are the "guests" of Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas until appropriate tourism ministry offices are...

Posted On 01 Apr 2004

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Greece's pavilion at this year's ITB tourism fair was bigger than other years, 2,255 square meters, but although the entrance area changed somewhat, everything within the pavilion remained basically the same with most stands rented from the Hellenic Tourism Organization being old and faded.

ITB Breaks Records as Greece Sleeps

The world's largest international travel fair, ITB Berlin, continues to break attendance records -- the 121,000 visitors were some 10,000 more than last year -- and exhibitor records. A total of 10,023 exhibitors from 178 countries and territories, representing every sector of...

Posted On 01 Apr 2004

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Former president of the Hellenic Tourism Organization, John Stefanides, hands the Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourism Agents’ honor award to Christodoulos Sbokos of Sbokos Tours, Heraklion, Crete, for his more than a quarter of a century of service to the travel trade.

Hatta General Assembly Speaker Angers Some Agents

During the recent annual general assembly of the Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourism Agents, almost a dozen special guests took to the podium.Most of the speakers were representatives of the country's political parties who, without exception, spoke on the importance of...

Posted On 01 Apr 2004

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Museums Ready to Re-open for Summer

Work on the road and the site has made the Marathon archaeological site unrecognizable as it undergoes refurbishment. As for the museum within the site, scheduled to be ready in June, work has begun on the walkways and planting is in progress.

Posted On 01 Apr 2004

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World Conference to Promote Satellite Account Method

The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is not only about statistics, it is much more, providing concrete proof that tourism is one of the most important economic sectors and, thus, indispensable in today's world.

Posted On 01 Apr 2004

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No Call From Abroad for 2004 Lodgings

Owners of Athenian houses did not exactly rush to offer their apartments for rent to foreign visitors to the Olympic Games, but what is on offer may still vastly exceed demand.

Posted On 01 Apr 2004

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EU Enlargement Creates Coherent European Tourism Industry

The enlargement of the European Union, with ten new members joining in May, will help create a "more complete and coherent European tourism industry, which should be recognized in the future European Constitution," according to the World Tourism Organization.

Posted On 01 Apr 2004

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Eria Resort, Maleme, Chania.

Unique Greek Resort Complex Ideal for the Physically Challenged

At least one Greek tourism enterprise seems to have taken to heart the potential gains as described in last year's edition of the Hellenic Tourism Organization's manual entitled "Making Europe Accessible for Tourists with Disabilities."

Posted On 01 Apr 2004

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Travel Association Wins Commision Case

The Greek Union of Air Travel Agencies (PETAGA) succeeded in winning a court case recently whereby travel agents are entitled to a minimum 7 percent commission on airline tickets sold.

Posted On 01 Apr 2004

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Air Sea Lines SA is ready to provide seaplane scheduled,

Seaplane Service for Greece As of May

Air Sea Lines SA, incorporated in Athens late last year, announced last month that it is ready to provide seaplane scheduled, "for hire" and charter passenger services connecting multiple island and coastal harbors within Greece.

Posted On 01 Apr 2004

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Tourism Industry Leaders Pessimistic for 2004 Season

Greece's tourism professionals are not in the least optimistic about the future of the country's main currency-earning industry thus crushing earlier hopes that 2004, being the country's Olympic year, would provide the much-needed shot in the arm to the sector.

Posted On 01 Mar 2004

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Olympic Prices for Greek Tourism Sector

A lot has been said recently on the difficulties that face the Greek tourism market and whether or not tourism enterprises will manage to scrounge out a profit from business activities this year, the year of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. According to some recent surveys, most...

Posted On 01 Mar 2004

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Legislation for Tourism Marketing Firm

Legislation before parliament foresees the creation of a tourism marketing firm, most likely under private management. According to the legislation, 51% of the firm's capital will be held by the Hellenic Tourism Organization and the remaining 49% will be split among regional...

Posted On 01 Mar 2004

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Festival Cruises Sells Three Vessels

In late January, Festival Cruises (of Greek-Italian interests) was broiled in talks with creditors in an attempt to reverse a decision to auction off its three recently acquired cruise ships -- the Mistral, European Vision and European Star. In mid February, Festival announced...

Posted On 01 Mar 2004

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