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Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis and Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni speaking to the press after their meeting last month.
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Athens Center On Ministry’s Priority List

The Tourism Ministry and the City of Athens last month said they would join forces and soon announce measures aimed for the tourism development of the Greek capital, which sees its arrivals tumbling year by year.
Posted On 01 Aug 2012
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Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis (photo) and Citizen Protection Minister Mihalis Chrysohoidis caused controversy in April in regards to proposals and plans to crackdown on riots, illegal immigration and organized crime in the Greek capital.
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Athens’ Demonstrations And Illegal Immigrants In The Spotlight

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis sparked controversy last month when he proposed draft legislation aimed to curb disruptive protest rallies and ban chemical use throughout demonstrations in Athens’ city streets, the Greek press reported. A team of constitutional lawyers and human...
Posted On 01 May 2012
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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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Athens Tourism A Challenge For 2012, Minister

“In Athens we have a problem, it is the black hole of our tourism and this is where we must focus our full attention in the coming year,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos said during an interview last month.
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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Greek National Tourism Organization Secretary General Yiorgos Koletsos (right) speaking at the presentation of the Technopolis “Summer 2011” program. From left: City of Athens Technopolis Governing Board Chairman Efrosyni Doxiadi, Athens Mayor Yiorgos Kaminis and Technopolis Managing Director Konstantinos Bitzanis.
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Athens Every Week Events In City Summer Program

The Mayor of Athens has embraced the Athens Every Week program and contributes to the tourism policy of the Culture and Tourism Ministry, part of which is the development of urban centers to city break destinations, according to the Greek National Tourism Organization’s secretary...
Posted On 01 Jun 2011
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The Culture and Tourism Ministry said it would renovate and transform the closed down hotel Acropole Palace (451 Patision and Averof Streets) into a cultural center in an effort to improve the National Archaeological Museum area in downtown Athens. In 1990, the Acropole Palace (today a listed building) was characterized by UNESCO as “a shining example of ArtNouveau architecture in Europe.”
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Measures Announced To Revive Athens Center

Prime Minister George Papandreou chaired a Cabinet meeting last month after a week of street violence occurred in an Athens city district and announced a series of measures aimed to revamp the Greek capital’s historic center.
Posted On 01 Jun 2011
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Yiannis Retsos, president of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association and Yiorgos Tsakiris, president of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels (right) listen to Dr. Kiriakos Reres of the Research Institute for Tourism during the presentation of the institute’s study on the ghettoization of part of the historic center of Athens. ITEP’s survey analyzed the successful “zero tolerance” policy implemented in New York City by NY Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The policy brought NYC’s crime rate down to record lows.
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Athens City Center Decline Hurts Tourism

The Research Institute for Tourism (ITEP) recently presented its latest study on the ghettoization of part of the historic center of Athens and its consequences on the economic life of the city during an event organized by the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels.
Posted On 01 Apr 2011
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With the closing of two hotels in Omonia (Acropol and Fashion House 2) and the risk of two more vacant buildings added to downtown Athens, Athens Mayor George Kaminis requested from the Education Ministry to consider using the two buildings as student halls of residence, reports said.
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Pilot Program May Help City Center Hotels Bounce Back

Athens Mayor George Kaminis held a meeting last month with Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos at City Hall and discussed opportunities for the development of tourism in the Greek capital, according to a press release issued by the ministry.
Posted On 01 Mar 2011
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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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Posted On 01 Dec 2010
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