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Corporate Online Travel Bookings to Double in Next Three Years

The battlefield lines are being drawn in the evolving online corporate travel arena. Players positioned at the brink of head-to-head combat, as well as those scuffling behind the front lines, are engaged in an intriguing mix of cooperation and competition. Many are devising...

Posted On 01 Feb 2004

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Holiday Malta Moves to New Offices

To start of the new spring and summer tourism season with a bang, Holiday Malta Hellas moved to new offices on Alexandras Avenue and created a number of new vacation packages, including ones for organized groups and incentives.

Posted On 01 Jun 2003

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Branko Krasojevic, president of Yugoslav Travel Agencies Association (Serbia, Montenegro) with his executive board member, Arsenije Janevski, Radisav Stancovic, director of the Yugoslav Travel Agencies Association. All three took time to attend the signing ceremonies of the Balkan federation agreement and were on hand at the new federation's stand for most of Panorama.

Balkan Federation Agreement Signed

The Federation of Travel and Tourism Agencies Association in the Balkan Region is now a reality. During last month's Tourism Panorama the final signatures from seven presidents of 10 Balkan country travel agency associations entered the cooperation agreement.

Posted On 01 May 2003

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Nikos Gazelides, general manager of Amphitrion Holidays; Karen Ashworth, US Airways' marketing manager for offline markets; and Dinos Mitsiou, managing director of Amphitrion, during an open-house party to inaugurate the airline's exclusive Greek representation by Amphitrion Holidays.

Amphitrion Bucks Trends and Expands

In today's difficult climate most companies attempt to cut costs to the bone and downsize as much as possible. But not Amphitrion Holidays, which is one of the country's biggest and most successful tourism enterprises. Its most recent expansion activity was to open a new airline...

Posted On 01 Apr 2003

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Sportius Hospitality executives Dinos Mitsiou, Markos Siapanis, Georgos Karpetis and Nikos Gazelides.

First Sports Tourism Company Up and Running

Sportius Hospitality, the first Greek company to specialize in sports tourism, said during a recent presentation that it aims to be the biggest organization here to provide accommodation during next year's Olympics. Company executives said they would have 5,500 rooms and...

Posted On 01 Apr 2003

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Solid Soft International is no stranger at most Greek travel trade fairs.

Solid Soft Banks On Expansion

Greece's top back-office software provider for Greek travel agents, Solid Soft International, recently launched a series of expansion moves. These initiatives could place the company within an enviable position in the years to come.

Posted On 01 Mar 2003

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Onlooker checks out the storefront offices of Manos Travel System to try and figure out whether or not the company is still operating.

The Rise and Fall of Greece’s Top Name in Travel

A few years back, many in the travel industry would point to Manos Travel as an example of how to succeed in the business. The company started from a small office and through pioneering ideas grew by leaps and bounds into the biggest and most successful in the country.

Posted On 01 Feb 2003

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Travel Agents Do Not Need Airlines To Survive

With airlines posting negative revenue reports, and their "zero commission policy," the future of the travel agency industry was considered in doubt last year. But some agents have found ways to prosper amid all the uncertainties.

Posted On 01 Feb 2003

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Mary Souli, Cel’s managing director, was awarded with the title “Ambassador of Cultural Communication between Mongolia and Greece.”

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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Eurostar Signs New Agreement With Galileo

Eurostar, one of the largest tourism corporations in Greece, recently expanded its cooperation with Galileo Hellas concerning the Galileo's electronic reservation system (CRS) Eurostar uses at its headquarters and branch offices.

Posted On 01 Feb 2002

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FerryScreen System for ferries

FerryScreen, a reservations and online ticketing system for coastal shipping companies that's owned by Analysis SA says it issued more than one million coastal lines' tickets for Anek and Blue Star Ferries this year and by the end of 2001 the number will exceed 1,250,000.

Posted On 01 Dec 2001

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Travel Company Mergers On Hold

Some six months ago the biggest news circulating within the local travel trade included the merger talks between Amphitrion and the Lambrakis group's Travel Plan, and the purchase of Manos Travel System by the Vassilakis group (Hertz). Neither deal reached fruition, nor did any...

Posted On 01 Oct 2001

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Galileo Becomes First Global Reservation System Not Owned By An Airline

Galileo International, Inc., a popular global distribution system used by Greek travel agents, recently signed an agreement with Cendant Corporation of the U.S. According to the agreement, Cendant acquires all of the outstanding common stock of Galileo for about $2.9 billion....

Posted On 01 Aug 2001

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Online Mergers Begin In Travel Sector

It looks as if the expected batch of mergers in the online travel sector has begun with the purchase of Expedia by USA Networks Inc. The Internet and TV cable company says it plans to become the world's online travel powerhouse by taking control of the world's second largest...

Posted On 01 Aug 2001

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Silver Star Opens Athens Office

Thessaloniki-based Silver Star Holidays opened a branch office in Athens recently. Like the head office, it deals only directly with travel agents with tour packages to Malta, Turkey and Syria. It is also the exclusive representative in Greece for the Corinthia hotel group.

Posted On 01 Aug 2001

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Heronia Inaugurates Thessaloniki Branch

Helen Trentzos has come a long way since she left her job in a Piraeus shipping company, and as a sharp looking young woman opened a travel office in the early 1970s that specialized in seaman travel.

Posted On 01 Jul 2001

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Aktina's headquarters are based in its own building complex in Piraeus.

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Aktina Leads The Way

Just a few years after it was first founded in 1975, Piraeus-based Aktina has lead the way for other Greek travel agencies. The office became an IATA member in 1977 and in 1981 the company foresaw new market developments and was one of the few to convert the personal company into...

Posted On 01 Dec 2000

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Exclusive Tours Promotes Norwegian Dream

Nikos and Kostas Pagonis of Athens-based Exclusive Tours last month took local travel agents on a tour of Norwegian Cruise Lines' cruise vessel Norwegian Dream, which had docked in Piraeus harbor. Exclusive, as the line's representative in Greece, says it's off to a new start...

Posted On 01 Dec 2000

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Andreas Manessis (right) of Manessis Taxidi Anessis.

Manessis Renovates New Quarters

Greek travel agency Manessis recently moved to newly- purchased offices in downtown Athens and is now in the process of complete renovations of these quarters with the assistance of the Stylianides architectural team. The new offices will include the operation of an Internet...

Posted On 01 Aug 2000

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Cel Tours' major promotional event in Thessaloniki.

Cel Tours Promotes New Destinations And On-line Sales

Mary Souli, general manger of Athens-based Cel Tours, organized a major promotional event in Thessaloniki recently for that area’s travel agents.

Posted On 01 Jul 2000

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