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Greece Expected To Get Visa-Free Travel To U.S.

Greece is soon expected to obtain visa waiver status as it is considered only a matter of time to join the United States' Visa Waiver Program (VWP), according to Europolitics, European affairs daily updated website.
Posted On 01 Feb 2010
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E.U. Package Travel Directive To Be Revised

The current European Union law on package travel—the Package Travel Directive—was drawn up in 1990 and is no longer suited for today's travel market and will be renewed, E.U. Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva recently announced at a press conference in Brussels.
Posted On 01 Jan 2010
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EU: Travel Will Spread Swine Flu

The summer holiday traffic is expected to accelerate the new influenza A (H1N1) across Europe, the European Commission recently warned.
Posted On 01 Sep 2009
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Grevena Prefect Dimosthenis Kouptsidis; Spokesman of the European Commission Delegation in Greece Carlos Martic Ruiz de Gordejuela; Tourism Minister Kostas Markopoulos; Lesvos Prefect Pavlos Vogiatzis; and Florina Prefect Ioannis Voskopoulos.
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Tourism Ministry Awards EDEN Greek Finalists

Tourism Minister Kostas Markopoulos honored the prefecture of Lesvos at an event in Athens after the island recently received the award for top sustainable tourism destination in Greece for 2009 in the European Commission's third "European Destinations of Excellence" (EDEN) project.
Posted On 01 Sep 2009
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Exterior view of the New Acropolis Museum. According to Dr. Panos Livadas, Greece's secretary general of information, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens has attracted more attention from the world media than any topic, besides the economy.
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New Acropolis Museum Opens

The Greek claim for the return of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon marbles from the British Museum in London typified the official opening of the New Acropolis Museum on 20 June.
Posted On 01 Aug 2009
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ATEM Presents 2009 Arrivals Forecast

Greek tourist traffic is expected to decline between 5.41 and 13.01 percent this season, depending on the price of oil, says research group Academy of Tourism Research and Studies (ATEM). However, the group noted that if the oil price remains at $58 per barrel a 10.07 reduction...
Posted On 01 Aug 2009
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Greece To Sign Memorandum With United Arab Emirates

Tourism Minister Kostas Markopoulos held a meeting today with the Commissioner to the United Arab Emirates Embassy Adel Al Marjouki and agreed to sign a tourism cooperation memorandum between the two countries in regards to transport and investment.
Posted On 24 Jul 2009
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Brussels Airlines
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Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines Tie-Up

The European Commission recently granted regulatory approval for the tie-up of Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines.
Posted On 08 Jul 2009
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Travel Agencies Called To Join Forces

Proposed solutions and improvements on technical and substantive issues within the relations of tourism offices and airline companies were discussed recently in Athens at the "Air Services 2009" conference.
Posted On 01 Jul 2009
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Greece Stars At E.U. Awards

Greece was once again amongst the grand prize winners that received the "European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/ Europa Nostra Award" for 2009 at the award ceremony that took place last month at the Teatro Antico in Taormina, Sicily (Italy).
Posted On 01 Jul 2009
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Lesvos Wins EDEN Award

Lesvos Island received the award for top sustainable tourism destination in Greece for 2009 in the European Commission's third "European Destinations of Excellence" (EDEN) project.
Posted On 01 Jul 2009
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State Sells Olympic Airlines

Marfin Investment Group sealed a deal with the Greek government and will buy Olympic Airlines now that the European Commission gave the green light for the sale and a joint ministerial privatization committee approved the deal.
Posted On 01 Apr 2009
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ITB Berlin 2009

Greece presented a weak inbound performance January through August 2008, on a scale from zero percent and below, according to figures from the IPK International's European Travel Monitor included within the ITB World Travel Trends Report 2008/2009. Cyprus was included among the...
Posted On 01 Mar 2009
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EU Funding for Greek Alternative Tourism

The amount of EU funds for the improvement of Greek tourist services for the 2007-2013 period amounts to 118 million euros, which includes the finance of Greek alternative tourism forms, said the European Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, Gunter Verheugen, recently.
Posted On 01 Feb 2009
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Brussels Airlines Vice President of Communications, Geert Sciot (left), referred to Lufthansa which in September 2008 bought 45 percent of the Belgian airline:
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Aegean Airlines Signs Partnership with Brussels Airlines

Aegean Airlines recently signed a commercial cooperation agreement with Brussels Airlines that includes the operation of the route Brussels-Athens.
Posted On 01 Jan 2009
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Aristotelis Thomopoulos President, HELEXPO.
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Aristotelis Thomopoulos

For the past four years Philoxenia has been developing to even greater status levels and to a stronger role in the wider region of southeastern Europe.
Posted On 01 Nov 2008
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Black List of Banned Airlines

The European Commission recently approved the eighth update of the ‘black list’ of airline companies that are banned from flying to European Union countries due to security issues.
Posted On 01 Sep 2008
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The Role of Ports to be Discussed

An international conference, which will focus on the role of ports as connecting hubs between maritime and inland transport, is to take place on 17 and 18 September, Minister of Mercantile Marine, the Aegean and Island Policy Yiorgos Voulgarakis recently announced.
Posted On 01 Sep 2008
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Grevena Prefecture Chosen for EDEN
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Grevena Prefecture Chosen for EDEN

The tourism development ministry announced the prefectural administration of Grevena is the tourism destination that was chosen to represent Greece in the European Commission's pilot project "European Destinations of Excellence" (EDEN) with the theme "tourism and local intangible...
Posted On 01 Jul 2008
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Europa Nostra
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Greece Receives E.U. Cultural Heritage Prize

Greece was amongst the five countries that received a "European Union prize for cultural heritage/Europa Nostra award" last month. The other four were the Netherlands that received two prizes, Spain, the Czech Republic, and Romania.
Posted On 01 Jul 2008
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