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Greek Passenger Shipping Professionals Request Exemption from Potential VAT Rate Increase

Passenger ferry services should be designated as "emergency services" and therefore charged with a reduced Value Added Tax rate, the Association of Greek Passenger Shipping Companies (SEEN) said in a letter to Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.
Posted On 11 May 2015
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Third Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum Unveils Speaker Line-up

Senior officials from major international cruise companies will meet in Athens in May for the 3rd Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum to engage with government officials, network and do business with representatives of the Eastern Mediterranean’s port authorities, cruise ship suppliers...
Posted On 11 Mar 2015
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Athens Welcomes Greek Tourism Expo

Some 162 exhibitors, 74 hosted buyers, 2,600 B2B meetings and 6,650 visitors “came to meet the Greeks” at this year’s 1st Greek Tourism Expo which took place at the Metropolitan Expo on 5-7 December.
Posted On 12 Dec 2014
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SETE Announces New Board of Directors

The Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) held elections on Wednesday 30 April during its 22nd annual general assembly and elected its new Board of Directors for a 3-year mandate.
Posted On 01 May 2014
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SETE Sends Message Ahead Of World Tourism Day

17 million international arrivals, 11 billion euros of direct revenue and 40,000 new employment positions must be the aims of Greek tourism in 2013. If these goals are achieved, tourism will add 1.5 percent to the country’s GDP, raising the contribution of tourism to GDP above 16...
Posted On 26 Sep 2012
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SEEN President Michalis Sakellis
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SEEN Elects New Board of Directors

Michalis Sakellis has been elected president of the Greek Shipowners Association For Passenger Ships (SEEN), following the resignation of Apostolos Ventouris last week.
Posted On 20 Sep 2012
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Apostolos Ventouris
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Head Of Coastal Shippers Association Resigns, Sector In Trouble

A disruption in ferry connections to the Greek islands is highly possible since most Greek coastal shipping companies are on the verge of collapsing due to the difficult financial situation, warned Apostolos Ventouris, former president of the Greek Shipowners Association for...
Posted On 14 Sep 2012
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Heraklio Port, Crete
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Greek Homeporting Sees Decline, European Cruise Council

The number of passengers that disembarked on Greek cruise destinations from circular cruises that homeported in Greece continued to drop in 2011, according to a report presented during the sixth annual conference of the European Cruise Council (ECC) in Brussels.
Posted On 01 Aug 2012
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Cruise Update Seminar at Posidonia 2012.
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Cruise Update: Cabotage Lifted In Greece, But More To Be Done

State protectionism is a stumbling block that discourages the potential growth of Greece’s sea tourism, according to heads of international cruise sector bodies, senior officials from Greece’s port authorities and cruising industry who attended the Cruise Update Seminar held on...
Posted On 01 Jul 2012
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The panel organized to announce the conclusions of last month's Coastal Shipping Forum: Nikos Lakiotis of the Piraeus Chamber; Michalis Sakellis, managing director of Blue Star Ferries and president of the Union of Coastal Passengership Owners; Yiannis Evangelou, president of the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agencies (HATTA); and Kyriaki Palasi, HATTA's special consultant for shipping matters.
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Government Responsible for Inadequate Ferry Routes

Tourism and shipping industry speakers said Greek passenger ferries and dozens of popular Aegean island ports must urgently improve if this Mediterranean country is to continue to see strong increases in tourism arrivals. At a recent press call to announce the conclusions of last...
Posted On 01 Apr 2007
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A note by the publisher

Because of domestic cabotage -when sea transport is open only to Greek companies- Greece “lost the cruise business”, said Gerasimos Strintzis when his new Blue Star 1 ferry was launched last month. Pericles Panagopoulos of Superfast Ferries reminded that in free international...
Posted On 01 Jul 2000
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