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Greek Hoteliers Wait To Be Paid By Libyan Government

Several hotels in Athens and Thessaloniki are near a financial crunch as the unpaid bills for the hosting of Libyan rebel fighters are now near some 30 million euros, the Greek press said last month.
Posted On 01 Sep 2012
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Tourists seen at the monumental gateway of Hadrian's arch in the center of Athens. Upon releasing data on bookings in the Greek capital, the Athens-Attica Hotel Association recently referred to “a depressing performance of the destination and its hotels.”
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Greece’s Two Major Cities Report Low Bookings

Although bookings in Greece were reported to have increased following the June elections, the same cannot be said for reservations in major cities such as Athens and Thessaloniki due to the decrease of domestic tourism and cancellations of conferences and events, a tourism...
Posted On 01 Sep 2012
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Athens’ Hotels Bookings Continue To Drop

The “highly disappointing” figures of hotel occupancy in the Greek capital were confirmed late June by the Athens-Attica Hotel Association in collaboration with GBR Consulting.
Posted On 01 Aug 2012
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On 31 May the five-star Classical Athens Imperial hotel of the Daskalantonakis Group, located in Metaxourgio, central Athens, ceased operations due to low bookings as a result of the degradation of Athens center. “The announcement of the closure of yet another hotel in Athens, the five-star Athens Imperial, member of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association and a decoration for Karaiskaki Square, is a deeply unfortunate event,” the Athens-Attica Hotel Association said in an announcement.
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Athens City Center Hotel Occupancy In Trouble

“At the beginning of the year I referred to a particularly difficult tourism season but now, based on the rate bookings are moving in Athens, I will now refer to a collapse,” the president of the Hellenic Federation of Hoteliers, Yiannis Retsos, told tourism journalists recently.
Posted On 01 Jul 2012
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Athens’ Hoteliers Call For Immediate Attention Of City Center Image

“The hotels in Athens are collapsing,” was the comment of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association in a recent announcement in regards to the city’s hotel performance for the month of November 2011. Αccording to data from the association, the average hotel occupancy in Athens-Attica...
Posted On 01 Feb 2012
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HATTA Calls Meeting To Improve Downtown Athens Image

The Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agencies (HATTA) called a sudden meeting last month to focus on the image of downtown Athens and discuss the negative impact of the city’s tourism. The purpose of the meeting was to examine interventions to improve the image of the...
Posted On 01 Jan 2012
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Athens’ Tourism Continues To Decline

“With the current bipartisan composition of the Culture and Tourism Ministry, we will not understand, justify, explain, accept or even tolerate the possibility of failure to implement concrete promises, commitments and agreed procedures towards a common direction,” Yiannis...
Posted On 01 Jan 2012
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Athens’ Four-Star Hotels In The Lead In August

Bookings in four- and five-star hotels of the Greek capital in August recorded a slight increase of 1.13 percent over the same month last year, according to data released recently by the Athens-Attica Hotel Association.
Posted On 01 Nov 2011
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Athens’ Bookings Satisfactory Despite Disruptions

“The winter season is expected to be extremely difficult, not only for Athens but for all Greek destinations that operate year round,” Yiannis Retsos, president of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association, said last month in regards to the Greek capital’s summer bookings.
Posted On 01 Oct 2011
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Athens’ Hotels-Expedia.com Campaign Continues

Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos last month approved a three-month extension of a campaign launched by the Athens-Attica Hotel Association and online travel company Expedia.com. The Greek National Tourism Organization will finance the extension of the campaign.
Posted On 01 Sep 2011
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Omonia Square is currently not one of Athens' most attractive features in the city center as nearby streets and alleys are considered crime magnets especially when night falls. According to press reports, a small improvement has been noticed in the city center as police patrols have indeed increased but “there is still a long way to go.”
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Safety Needed First For Downtown Athens

“The primary issue is to restore order and to consolidate a sense of security to those who are in central Athens, whether they are tourists, businessmen or permanent residents, and then everything else will fall into place,” the president of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association...
Posted On 01 Jul 2011
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Athens’ Hoteliers See Positive Signs For Tourism

The average hotel occupancy in Athens-Attica increased by 4.5 percent in April compared to the same month in 2010 following a negative streak in bookings that lasted several months, the Athens-Attica Hotel Association outlined last month in an announcement.
Posted On 01 Jul 2011
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Reports say that unrest in Egypt and Tunisia should put Greece on track for a slightly better tourism season this year. In regards to the subject, Hellenic Federation of Hoteliers’ President Yiannis Retsos said that although the conditions in North Africa may be to Greece’s benefit this year, “we can not rest nor settle for the fact that tourism is moving positively in only a few destinations in Greece.”
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Tourism Professionals Optimistic On Summer Bookings

“In regards to Easter holiday overnights, early bookings and the latest data from Greek airport arrivals for the first four months of the year, tourism traffic is showing positive signs with an upward trend at least in terms of arrivals,” President of the Hellenic Federation of...
Posted On 01 Jun 2011
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Athens’ Hotels See Ups And Downs In February

Athens’ hotel occupancy in February caused optimism, but also concern, to hoteliers as overnights in five- and four-star hotels recorded an increase while two- and three-star hotels saw a significant decrease.
Posted On 01 May 2011
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Resignation Forces Hotel Sector Leadership Reshuffle

The Greek tourism sector last month saw changes in the leaderships of the country’s key tourism organizations with Yiannis Retsos taking over the chairmanship of the Hellenic Federation of Hoteliers.
Posted On 01 May 2011
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Yiannis Retsos, president of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association and Yiorgos Tsakiris, president of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels (right) listen to Dr. Kiriakos Reres of the Research Institute for Tourism during the presentation of the institute’s study on the ghettoization of part of the historic center of Athens. ITEP’s survey analyzed the successful “zero tolerance” policy implemented in New York City by NY Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The policy brought NYC’s crime rate down to record lows.
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Athens City Center Decline Hurts Tourism

The Research Institute for Tourism (ITEP) recently presented its latest study on the ghettoization of part of the historic center of Athens and its consequences on the economic life of the city during an event organized by the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels.
Posted On 01 Apr 2011
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With the closing of two hotels in Omonia (Acropol and Fashion House 2) and the risk of two more vacant buildings added to downtown Athens, Athens Mayor George Kaminis requested from the Education Ministry to consider using the two buildings as student halls of residence, reports said.
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Pilot Program May Help City Center Hotels Bounce Back

Athens Mayor George Kaminis held a meeting last month with Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos at City Hall and discussed opportunities for the development of tourism in the Greek capital, according to a press release issued by the ministry.
Posted On 01 Mar 2011
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Athens’ Hotels See Improved Figures For October

Hotel occupancy in October 2010 may have dropped 4.4 percent, compared with the same month in 2009, but it was considered an improve­ment as in September 2010 the hotel room occupancy rate was down 9.2 percent, according to the Athens-Attica Hotel Association.
Posted On 01 Jan 2011
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Greek Capital Sees Poor Customer Satisfaction

The city of Athens continues to attract visitors despite the serious problems experienced in 2010, according to the Athens-Attica Hotel Association’s latest study on customer satisfaction and performance of hotels in Attica. The study was presented at the association’s 41st...
Posted On 01 Dec 2010
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“Despite problems, the Greek capital has enormous potential and if destination Athens was promoted correctly to foreign markets the city would have a fast recovery,” President of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association Yiannis Retsos said during the association’s 41st Annual General Assembly.
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Athens’ Hotels See Low Revenue In 2010

Athenian hoteliers saw a 6.7 percent drop in hotel occupancy this past September, along with a 9.2 percent decrease in the revenue per available room in five-, four- and three-star hotels, President of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association Yiannis Retsos said last month during his...
Posted On 01 Dec 2010
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