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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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Thessaloniki Opens To Influential Gay Community

“Thessaloniki is a city that does not discriminate and is friendly to all who wish to visit,” Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris said at a recent conference on gay tourism and entrepreneurship held in the northern Greek city.

Posted On 01 Jan 2012

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HAPCO Urges Government To Pay More Attention To Conference Tourism

“The socio-political events and the effects of the economic crisis that has plagued our country and its citizens, has transformed Greece into an undesirable destination that frightens organizers, sponsors and conference delegates and presents Greek professionals as unreliable and...

Posted On 01 Jan 2012

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AIA Launches “Athenspotlighted” Program

Athens International Airport's (AIA) CEO Yiannis Paraschis presented the “athenspotlighted” program last month, an initiative that aims to boost the attractiveness of Athens as a city break destination.

Posted On 01 Dec 2011

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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 Arrivals Drop, AIA Too Expensive

Athens experienced a 4.67 percent decrease in international arrivals in September compared to the same month in 2010, according to recent figures released by the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE).

Posted On 01 Nov 2011

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Olympic Air and KLM Sign Code Share Agreement

Olympic Air and KLM signed a code share agreement last month that entitled the airlines to market flights between Amsterdam and Athens for connecting traffic under each other’s flight numbers.

Posted On 01 Oct 2011

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Mckinsey Study: New National Growth Model For Greece

The Greek tourism sector contributed (directly and indirectly) some 27 billion euros to the Greek GDP in 2010 and could increase that contribution to 45 billion euros annually by 2021 through a series of initiatives and investments, according to the study “Greece 10 Years Ahead”...

Posted On 01 Oct 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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Plato’s Academy Site To Receive Upgrade

“The upgrade and unification of Plato's Academy is a project that has been delayed greatly… Plato’s Academy is a source of wealth for Athens and it must be promoted as such,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos said recently.

Posted On 01 Sep 2011

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Positive Performance Predicted For Greek Hotels In Q3

Greek resort hotels showed an excellent performance during the second quarter this year with an increase of 12.4 percent in revenue per available room compared to the corresponding quarter of 2010 and resulted to a year-to-date of 11.2 percent, recent figures released by GBR...

Posted On 01 Sep 2011

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Italian architect Renzo Piano (center) presented the final architectural plans for the development of the Faliro Delta to the Greek media last month. The project’s budget was said to be some 200 million euros covered by the Greek Environment, Energy and Climate Change Ministry's program “Athens-Attica 2014.” The Stavros Niarchos Foundation funded the master plan of the park with four million euros.

Faliro Delta To Become Biggest Park In Athens

“This park will become a new destination in the city,” renowned architect Renzo Piano said while presenting the final architectural plans for the development of the Faliro Delta in late June to the Greek media. The plans were funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Posted On 01 Aug 2011

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Employees of the King George hotel on Syntagma Square pick up the pieces after the violent anti-austerity protests. On 29 June the hotel was evacuated “due to the uncontrolled nature of events taking place at Syntagma Square.”

Professionals Call For Protection Of Tourism

“Greece is a country that offers an excellent tourism product and this should not be tarnished in any way,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos said in a statement recently in regards to the impact violent events in Athens had left on tourism during the 28-29 June...

Posted On 01 Aug 2011

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Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association President Yiannis Retsos and Grande Britain’s Hotel Manager Tim Ananiadis during the association’s press conference last month. “The issue is not what we lost but what we will lose and unfortunately the problem is not just about hotels in the center as we are losing conferences scheduled for 2012-2013,” Mr. Ananiadis said.

Protests in Athens Upset Hotel Bookings

Only a few days after the violent anti-austerity protests that took place 28-29 June at Syntagma Square, central Athens, some 8,000 booking cancelations in 20 of Athens hotels were recorded, Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association President Yiannis Retsos told journalists last month.

Posted On 01 Aug 2011

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Rob Davidson from the University of London and Greenwich speaking at the Athens Convention Bureau’s second “ACB event.”

ACB Holds Event To Promote Conference Tourism

“The effort to promote Athens in the conference market will only succeed with the full cooperation between the public and private sector with no exceptions,” Rob Davidson from the University of London and Greenwich told the audience at the Athens Convention Bureau’s second “ACB...

Posted On 01 Aug 2011

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Transavia.com recently launched a daily Amsterdam–Athens service.

Transavia.com Launches Athens Link

“We are very pleased that Athens is one of the six destinations of our summer program… Transavia.com will offer travel to Amsterdam at a reasonable and attractive price, accompanied by a high level of service,” the commercial director of Dutch budget carrier transavia.com,...

Posted On 01 Aug 2011

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New info-point located at intersection of Amalias Avenue and Dionysiou Areopagitou.

Athens Gets Two New Info-Points

Visitors to Athens are now offered additional assistance to get around the city as the Athens Tourism and Economic Development Company (ATEDCo) launched two new info-points last month in centrally located spots: the intersection of Amalias Avenue and Dionysiou Areopagitou and the...

Posted On 01 Aug 2011

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“Small scientific workshops that are conducted at the last minute and are estimated to be enough for the years 2011 and 2012 is the only hope professionals have,” HAPCO’s president Dinos Astras (third from right) said. It is estimated that next year Greece would see a loss of some 15 percent in international conferences, while national conferences are expected to remain on the same levels of 2011 with a possible further reduction.

Congress Tourism Needs A Boost, HAPCO

The Hellenic Association of Professional Congress Organizers (HAPCO) recently warned representatives of the Greek tourism leadership in regards to the “dangerous” downward course of Greek congress tourism and what ever that implies for the already “plagued” Greek economy.

Posted On 01 Jun 2011

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A seminar entitled “Success in Online Travel” was hosted by Amadeus in order to familiarize Greek travel agencies with various technological tools, to create awareness on emerging new online trends and to support them to “think” or even “re-think” their online strategies.

Amadeus Assists Travel Agents In “Online Arena”

“Amadeus Hellas will continue to support travel professionals in every possible way in order to enable the success in their business efforts,” General Manager Amadeus Hellas Eva Karamanou told GTP during a specially designed one-day seminar for travel agencies organized for the...

Posted On 01 Jun 2011

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GNTO's stand at Summer Holidays Expo 2011.

Summer Holidays Expo Debut In Athens

Athens citizens had the opportunity to better plan their summer vacation among a vast variety of top Greek destinations last month at the 5th Summer Holidays Expo international fair held at the Helexpo Palace exhibition center in Marousi, Athens.

Posted On 01 Jun 2011

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