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Hoteliers Back to Basics

Hundreds of flights a day seen during the first 20 days of the month of August have been bringing plane-loads of Olympic visitors to Athens, especially during the days leading up to the launch of the Olympic Games. But it's still too early to confirm whether predictions - that...

Posted On 01 Sep 2004

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Deputy Minister for Tourism Anastasios Liaskos.

Ministries Join to Confront Greek Tourism Visa Problems Abroad

Four Greek ministries (tourism, economy, foreign affairs, public order), along with private-sector tourism organization representatives, met last month to discuss the tourism visa problems encountered by potential visitors to Greece, and how best to solve these problems.

Posted On 01 Aug 2004

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Former president of the Hellenic Tourism Organization, John Stefanides, hands the Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourism Agents’ honor award to Christodoulos Sbokos of Sbokos Tours, Heraklion, Crete, for his more than a quarter of a century of service to the travel trade.

Hatta General Assembly Speaker Angers Some Agents

During the recent annual general assembly of the Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourism Agents, almost a dozen special guests took to the podium.Most of the speakers were representatives of the country's political parties who, without exception, spoke on the importance of...

Posted On 01 Apr 2004

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Full Liberation of Ferry Routes Doubtful

Presently, four of Greece's major ferry routes -- Dodekanissos, Cylades, Argosaronikos, Crete -- fulfill the requirements for complete liberation when discussions are finalized between Greece's merchant marine ministry and the European Commission.

Posted On 01 Feb 2004

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Speakers and guests at the tourism development conference included Loukas Douvas, general manager of the Attica Hoteliers Association; Georgos Dracopoulos, general manager of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises; Georgos Tsakiris, president of the Attica Hoteliers Association; and Aris Spiliotopoulos, N.D. Party member of parliament.

Tourism Development Depends On You

If we want the Greek tourism sector to develop at a satisfactory pace, we in the private sector must take it upon ourselves to do so, said speakers at the recent "The Need to Create a Tourism Development Strategy" conference held last month in Athens.

Posted On 01 Jan 2004

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Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos opened this year's Greek tourism fair with a general speech on tourism and emphasized tourism development in northern Greece in light of Thessaloniki's bid to host the world's biggest exhibition, Expo, in 2008.

19th Philoxenia Uneventful

Greece's tourism fair Philoxenia 2003, October 30-November 2, arrived and left this year with little fanfare. For the most part, exhibitors simply said that like every other year the exhibition gives us a chance to see some old friends and business acquaintances. But this year,...

Posted On 01 Dec 2003

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HATTA Wins Ruling on Commission Fees

Greece's Competition Commission fined Greece's two biggest airlines, Olympic and Aegean, a total of 210,000 euros for complicity in reducing the commission paid to travel agents, from 9.25 percent to 6.94 percent, on tickets for domestic flights.

Posted On 01 Nov 2003

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World Celebrates World Tourism Day

As we hit the presses World Tourism Day celebrations get underway all over the world. Here in Athens, on September 27, the Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourism Agents and the Hellenic Association of Tourism and Marine Employees, with the support of the Hellenic Tourism...

Posted On 01 Oct 2003

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Worst Tourism Season in 30 Years

Greece's tourism enterprises haven't felt such negative pressure in 30 years, says the Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourism Agents. "The negative economic effects experienced thus far have reached dangerous proportions for the future of tourism enterprises," says the...

Posted On 01 Aug 2003

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Charter for Athens Convention, Exhibitions and Visitors Bureau Signed

After two years of efforts, four of the country's major tourism organizations got together last month to sign the founding charter of the Athens Convention, Exhibitions and Visitors Bureau (Athens CVB). The founding member organizations included the Hellenic Association of Travel...

Posted On 01 Aug 2003

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Tourism ministers or their representatives arrived at the Astir Voulagmenis complex recently to sign a tourism cooperation agreement.

S.E. European Tourism Ministers Agree to Unite

Tourism ministers from Southeastern Europe met in Athens recently under the initiative of Greece's development minister, Akis Tsohatzopoulos, to sign a tourism cooperation agreement. This followed close on the heels of an agreement signed during the Panorama tourism exhibition by...

Posted On 01 Jul 2003

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View from Myconian Collection of up-market hotels on Mykonos.

Tourism Sector Hopes For Last-minute Bookings

The tourism sector had best hope for a barrage of last-minute bookings if Greece's consumers' federation is correct in its forecasts. Four out of every 10 Greeks will not take summer holidays this year, mainly to save money, while most of those who do go away will stay in their...

Posted On 01 Jun 2003

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HATTA Sides With Traveling Public

An Athens court recently ruled in favor of an injunction brought by the Hellenic Association of Tourism and Travel Agents against the Media & Travel Group, which distributes Travel Card, advertised as offering discount accommodation in over 300 hotels throughout Greece.

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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Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos (center) inaugurated Panorama 2003. To his right is Anastasia Kanellopoulou, secretary general of the Ionian Island Prefecture, which was the honorary Greek destination this year, and to his left is Georgios Kalofolias of the Kalofolias Group, organizer of the fair.

Holidaymakers Flock to Panorama 2003 Tourism Fair

In the midst of yet another international crisis, and a slow economy, Greeks took full advantage of this year's Panorama tourism fair, the eighth, in hopes of finding some special deals and domestic holiday possibilities this year. Exhibitors said they were truly surprised at the...

Posted On 01 May 2003

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Yiannis Evangelou, president of the Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourism Agents

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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Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourism Agents' vice president, Eleni Papadopoulou, and the association's president, Yiannis Evangelou, during a working lunch to discuss tourism problems with the media.

Greece Must Create New Tourism Products

Greece and its Mediterranean European Union neighbors must create new tourism products in order to survive and flourish as international tourism destinations, said Yiannis Evangelou, president of the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourism Agents during a recent working lunch...

Posted On 01 Mar 2003

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Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos and Turkish Tourism Minister Guldal Aksit after signing tourism protocol.

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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Airlines Double Passenger Compensation

The European Union's transport council recently announced a decision to effectively double the compensation paid to passengers who are unable to be accommodated on the flights on which they are booked.

Posted On 01 Jan 2003

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The Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourism Agents

HATTA, the oldest travel association in the world, this month celebrates its 75th anniversary. The association has played a pivotal role in the life of Greece's tourism development throughout its entire history.

Posted On 01 Dec 2001

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