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“There wasn’t even a Christmas tree. From the municipality they just threw some lights to blink on a cypress on Syntagma Square,” a representative of the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agencies (HATTA) told the press. Tourism professionals believe that the lack of a festive atmosphere in Athens was one of the main reasons visitors stayed away during the Christmas and New Year holidays.
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Athens Avoided During Holiday Season

Travel professionals said last month that Greeks and foreign visitors did not opt to spend their holidays in the Greek capital. According to the Athens-Attica Hotel Association, Athens recorded low bookings last December due to “the complete absence of a festive climate.”
Posted On 01 Feb 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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Athens’ Hotels See Poor Occupancy Results

Hotels in the Greek capital saw a 6.1 percent revenue drop for the first eight months of the year while Attica is going through two of the most difficult months of the year (September-October) that will determine the size of the losses, according to the Athens-Attica Hoteliers...
Posted On 01 Nov 2010
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Athens’ hoteliers expressed their frustration last month because Joanna Despotopoulou, president of 2011 Special Olympics Greece (seen above with Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis at a past Special Olympics event), excluded hotels of the city’s commercial center from suggested athlete accommo­dation.
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Athens’ Hotels Not Suitable For Special Olympic Athletes

The exclusion of Athens city center hotels from suggested athlete accommodation would be a tombstone for Athens tourism, the Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association stressed last month in a letter to Joanna Despotopoulou, president of the Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens...
Posted On 01 Oct 2010
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Athens Hotels Experience A Cruel Summer

Tourism revenue in the Greek capital during August decreased by 14 percent following a 15 percent drop in July, Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association President Yiannis Retsos recently told Greek journalists.
Posted On 01 Oct 2010
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It’s not a secret that many areas around Omonia Square (photo) are inaccessible especially at night, due to “shady” figures. According to press reports, many tourists this season have fallen victims to muggings in the city center.
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Tourists Have Second Thoughts On Visiting Athens

The revenue of Athens-Attica hotels (3-, 4-, and 5-star) fell by 3.6 percent from last year’s January-June period as a result of a 1.2 percent drop in the average hotel occupancy rate and 2.4 percent drop in the average price per room, according to the latest study of GBR...
Posted On 01 Aug 2010
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The day after the 5 May protest was “clean-up day” for the luxury Grande Bretagne Hotel on Syntagma Square as the day before its windows were smashed once the riots outside of Parliament began to heat up. Tim Ananiadis, the hotel’s general manager, told the press that the Greek government should become concerned and immediately transform Athens into a “safe city.”
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Athens Hoteliers Up Against Mass Cancelations

Almost two weeks after the violent anti-austerity protests in Athens center on 5 May, during which three people died in a fire set by self-styled anarchists, some 28,000 hotel room reservations were canceled in the Greek capital and the trend is steadily rising, Athens-Attica...
Posted On 01 Jun 2010
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Athens Hotels Show Low Occupancy In Q1

Athens hotel revenue decreased by seven percent during the first quarter of 2010 with the average revenue per available room shaped at 49.46 euros, according to official statistics of the Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association in regards to hotel occupancy for the first quarter of...
Posted On 01 Jun 2010
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Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association President Yiannis Retsos and General Secretary Alexandros Vasilikos. During the press conference, Mr. Retsos said that the areas around Omonia Square are defined as some of the most dangerous places in Europe.
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Athens Hotel Revenue Expected To Take A Plunge

As a destination Athens is deteriorating and losing any grounds it had intended to gain and this ultimately cannot be considered a result of the global economic crisis, according to Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association President Yiannis Retsos.
Posted On 01 Apr 2010
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Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association President Yiannis Retsos; Culture and Tourism Deputy Minister Angela Gerekou; President of Xenia Exhibitions-Conferences Tassos Koumanis; and Athens-Piraeus super-prefect Constantina Bay.
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Athens Hotel Industry In Free Fall

Athens hotel bookings have been in "free fall" as of December 2008, which translates to a 12 percent decrease up until September 2009 and an eight percent drop in the average price per room, stressed the President of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association Yiannis Retsos at the...
Posted On 01 Jan 2010
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Attica Hotel Revenue Down in Jan-Sep 2009

Hotels in Attica saw their average hotel occupancy rates drop by 13.62 percent, 9.26 percent and 9.25 percent in five-, four- and three-star hotels respectively during the first nine months of 2009, according to recently announced figures of the monthly study of GBR Consulting.
Posted On 01 Dec 2009
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Elections Expected To Hurt Athens’ Tourism

Any election period and political instability in general is negative for tourism, which in the center of Athens is up against a decrease of 20 percent or more in revenues, the president of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association, Yiannis Retsos, recently told the Greek press.
Posted On 01 Oct 2009
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Hotels In Athens Get Some Space

The Athens-Attica Hoteliers Association announced last month that it has finally succeeded to obtain free space in front of the city's hotels to facilitate the comfortable entrance and exit of tourists to and from taxis, buses, coaches and cars.
Posted On 01 Oct 2009
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The Athens-Attica Hotel Association believes that what is needed at the current time is an on-schedule planning for next year's Greek tourism promotion by the state and tourism businesses.
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Revenue Decrease For Athens-Attica Hotels

The revenue of Athens-Attica hotels fell some 20 percent from last year's January-May period as a result of a 16.6 percent drop in the average hotel occupancy rate and 5.1 percent in the average price per room, according to the latest study of GBR Consulting.
Posted On 01 Aug 2009
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Athens Hoteliers Want A Safer Capital

Along with the side effects of the economic crisis Athenian hotels now must deal with criminal acts against tourists (hotel guests) and employees of certain hotels in the city center, the Athens-Attica Hotels Association recently stressed.
Posted On 01 Jul 2009
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Yiannis Retsos, the new president of the Athens-Attica Hotels Association and the association's immediate past president, Yiorgos Tsakiris. Mr. Retsos emphasized the need to stop the defamation of Athens as an
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Athens-Attica Hoteliers Up In Arms

With a drop in the average hotel occupancy rate in the Athens Attica region by 26 percent in January, 13.1 percent in February and 15.7 percent in March, the Athens-Attica Hotels Association called for immediate measures to boost tourism in Greece’s capital.
Posted On 01 Jun 2009
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2008-2005 Comparison on Satisfaction Ratings.
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Attica Hotels Study Results a Disappointment for 2008

The president of the Athens-Attica Hoteliers' Association, Yiorgos Tsakiris, recently presented the results of a study on Attica hotel progress as well as the level of customer satisfaction for hotels in Attica.
Posted On 01 Jan 2009
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Athens Occupancy Crisis

The Athens-Attica Hotel Association says that the negative international economic situation will have a downbeat impact on tourism in Athens as this year may prove even more difficult than 2004.
Posted On 01 Nov 2008
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