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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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Mont Parnes Sale Approved

A government bill to privatize the Mont Parnes casino near Athens received parliamentary approval on March 2, despite disagreement from the opposition over its terms.
Posted On 01 May 2003
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One of the companies that will provide some of more than 112,000 lodging beds to visitors, Sportius Hospitality, signed the pertinent agreement last month with the responsible parties of the Athens Olympic Committee.
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Athens 2004 Games to Host A Million Visitors

More than a million visitors are expected to flock to Athens to watch the action at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. According to the Athens 2004 committee, foreign visitors during the two weeks of the Games will total somewhere between 500,000 and 700,000. Another 300,000 are...
Posted On 01 May 2003
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Dinos Mitsiou, chairman and chief executive officer of Amphitrion Holidays acts as the Luxair representative in Greece.
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Luxair Is Back With Daily Flights

Luxair, Luxembourg's flag carrier, resumed flights to Athens on March 30. The airline had suspended its flights to here some four years ago but now flies daily out of Athens to Luxembourg, with a stopover at Italy's Milan Bergamo airport, using a 49-seat Embraer 145 Eurojet that...
Posted On 01 May 2003
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Yiannis Evangelou, president of the Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourism Agents
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HATTA Behind Creation of Balkan Travel Agency Associations’ Federation

With little help but with a lot of work, Yiannis Evangelou, president of the Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourism Agents, managed to draw together all similar associations throughout the Balkans and pose an idea. "Let's cooperate through a pan-Balkan federation of travel...
Posted On 01 Apr 2003
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Tourism Organization Considers Additional Tourism Promotion Activities

The Hellenic Tourism Organization is now in the process of increasing promotional activities of Greece abroad. Besides agreements with major television companies in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, a major television crew from China just left Greece after...
Posted On 01 Apr 2003
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Greek Hotel Sector Improves Financial Picture

There are a plethora of complaints coming from Greece's hotel sector regarding difficult times, desperately low room rates and a severe drop in business. Perhaps so. Figures released recently by the ICAP Data Bank, however, tell a different story. These figure show that 2001 was...
Posted On 01 Apr 2003
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The number of domestic travelers this year is expected to increase substantially according to the organizers of this year's domestic travel fair Tourism Panorama.
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Hoteliers Look To Domestic Travelers

Greek hoteliers are turning to domestic travelers in order to cover the loss of foreign arrivals expected this year. Many hoteliers already are working with local travel agents to create package programs with an enticing pricing policy. Travel agents and hoteliers expect to work...
Posted On 01 Apr 2003
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Panhellenic Hoteliers Federation President Vassilis Minaides, Economy and Finance Minister Nikos Christodoulakis, Hotel Federation's Georgos Kalligeris, and Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyiannis.
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Hoteliers Must Become More Competitive

Panhellenic Hoteliers Federation President Vassilis Minaides believes that the Greek hotel sector, even though it has made major improvement strides over the past couple of years, is not competitive enough.
Posted On 01 Mar 2003
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Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos and Turkish Tourism Minister Guldal Aksit after signing tourism protocol.
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Greek-Turkish Tourism Agreement Signed

Turkish Tourism Minister Guldal Aksit arrived in Athens last month to sign a tourism cooperation agreement with Greek Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos. The agreement includes efforts to promote a common tourism product to markets such as North America, China and Russia.
Posted On 01 Mar 2003
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Zana Mirilla, marketing manager for Amazing Holidays accepts a best tour operator award from the Thai government's representative.
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Amazing Holidays Honored by Thailand

At its fairly recent holiday awards ceremony, Thailand's tourism minister honored the tour operators it considered the most important and best for Thailand's tourism industry. On the top of the list was Amazing Holidays, a subsidiary company of Athens-based Cel Tours.
Posted On 01 Mar 2003
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Another Museum Closed For Renovations

One by one, Greece's major archaeological museums are closing down for refurbishment ahead of the 2004 Olympic Games. The fear expressed by Greece's travel professionals is that this simultaneous rush will leave many visitors over the next year and one-half standing enraged...
Posted On 01 Feb 2003
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Last Call For Tender To Construct Conference Center

The four short-listed consortiums in the tender for construction and operation for 50 years of the planned conference center in Athens's old airport installations at Hellenikon have been invited to submit their final technical and financial bids to state-owned Hellenic Tourism...
Posted On 01 Feb 2003
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Tourism Concerns Embrace Internet

Some 30 million euros goes to tourism enterprises this year in an effort to force them to embrace new technology, in particular the Internet, say the government's tourism leaders. The funds will come from the European Union's Information Community Business Program.
Posted On 01 Feb 2003
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The “new” Hotel de la Grande Bretagne covers 1.5 acres of prime downtown property and now boasts 290 luxury rooms and 37 suites.
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Athens to Celebrate the Rebirth of Hotel de la Grande Bretagne

On the first of next month, Athenians celebrate the rebirth of the capital's most magnificent lodging unit: The Hotel Grande Bretagne. After spending some 70 million euros during the past year and one-half and literally gutting the old "palace," owners rebuilt the GB, as it is...
Posted On 01 Feb 2003
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Georgos Tsakiris, the newly-elected president of the Attica Hoteliers' Association, with his new secretary general, Yiannis Retsos, during their first press call.
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Convention Bureau Top Priority For New Attica Hoteliers’ Association Board

A convention and visitors bureau for Athens, that's the top priority for the new board of directors of the Attica Hoteliers' Association. Already, the board has the support of the Attica Regional Authority. The next step is to convince travel-related associations in the region to...
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Elena Panagiotou, marketing and sales manager for The Athenian Callirhoe Exclusive Hotel, with communications specialist, Spiros Koufalis, during a recent working dinner for the press corps.
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Athenian Callirhoe Beats The Averages

While luxury hotel units in the Athens area fight to keep their heads above water and keep above a 60% occupancy rate, the new kid on the block, The Athenian Callirhoe Exclusive Hotel, boasts rates above 75%.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Yiannis Evagelou, president of the Hellinic Association of Travel and Tourism Agents; Ghassan Saad, president of the World Association of Travel Agents; Yiannis Patellis, president of the Hellenic Tourism Organization; and Vassilis Niadas, 2004 Games Support general manager.
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WATA Delegates First To Know

Delegates to the recent World Association of Travel Agents annual general assembly here in Athens (November 28 to December 1) felt privileged to be the first to hear how 2004 Games' tickets will be distributed.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Tourism Organization Signs Deal With Visa

The Hellenic Tourism Organization and the Visa credit card company have announced an agreement for a mutual promotion project within the framework of the 2004 Olympic Games.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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Greece EU Presidency Features Open Skies Policy

When Greece assumes the European Union presidency on January 1, for a six-month period, its transportation brief will include a member states' agreement to award the European Commission a wide-ranging mandate to negotiate a bilateral USA-EU "open skies" agreement.
Posted On 01 Jan 2003
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