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Pavlos Yeroulanos, Culture and Tourism Minister
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Pavlos Yeroulanos

Greece provides a unique way of life; a way of life that puts forth values that have been tested through time. So it is not surprising that many of those who visit our country are people who have been exposed to these values through their schooling and their studies.
Posted On 01 Nov 2011
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Hellenic Chamber of Hotels President Yiorgos Tsakiris
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Yiorgos Tsakiris

For the past two years Greece, as a country and a nation, faces the greatest challenges of its modern history. Greece is changing. Severe and big changes are taking place in the country, which in many cases have resulted to the display of exaggerated images and news about our...
Posted On 01 Nov 2011
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Greece Celebrates World Tourism Day With Strikes

World Tourism Day was celebrated on 27 September globally around the theme “Tourism–Linking Cultures” and highlighted tourism’s role in bringing the cultures of the world together and promoting global understanding through travel.
Posted On 01 Nov 2011
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Campsites To Be Classified With Star Rating System

Organized campsites in Greece will now be ranked according to a star-rating system, from one star to five stars, based on mandatory technical and functional specifications and ratings criteria, according to a Council of State decision that approved a relevant draft presidential decree.
Posted On 01 Oct 2011
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Greece’s Competitiveness Continues To Plunge

Greece this year fell another seven places in the rankings of 142 countries from 83rd place to 90th in the Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012, released by the World Economic Forum last month. Greece remains the lowest-ranked country of the European Union and is below...
Posted On 01 Oct 2011
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Greece Falls Out Of Favor With Gay Tourists

“Gay and lesbian tourists, who for years flocked to the islands of Mykonos and Lesbos, have removed Greece from their list of favorite destinations because of discrimination,” a survey by Amsterdam-based OutNow Consulting said recently. According to the OutNow Global LGBT2020...
Posted On 01 Oct 2011
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Stronger Ties Between Greece And Serbia

“Serbian visitors to Greece this year are expected to reach 700,000 and the aim is for that figure to increase to one million visitors over the next few years,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos said last month.
Posted On 01 Oct 2011
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Greece Lacks In Medical Tourism Despite Potential

Medical tourism has been a fast growing sector worldwide over the last 15 years and while Greece has potential to compete in the rapidly growing 'middle market' of medical tourism, the country lacks a comprehensive national sector growth strategy, according to a recent study by...
Posted On 01 Oct 2011
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Employees of the King George hotel on Syntagma Square pick up the pieces after the violent anti-austerity protests. On 29 June the hotel was evacuated “due to the uncontrolled nature of events taking place at Syntagma Square.”
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Professionals Call For Protection Of Tourism

“Greece is a country that offers an excellent tourism product and this should not be tarnished in any way,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos said in a statement recently in regards to the impact violent events in Athens had left on tourism during the 28-29 June...
Posted On 01 Aug 2011
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The “Tourism Investment Conference: Focus on Greece,” was held in Athens and organized by Financial Times with the strategic partnership of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) and the local partnership of Boussias Communications.
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Conference Focuses On Tourism Investment In Greece

The need to promote tourism investment and increase competitiveness in Greece to face the economic crisis was underlined by tourism professionals and experts at the “Tourism Investment Conference: Focus on Greece,” held in Athens last month.
Posted On 01 Aug 2011
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Greece ranked second place on the Blue Flag quality award list for 2011.
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Greece Welcomed Summer 2011 With Less Blue Flags

Greece ranked second place on the Blue Flag quality award list among 41 countries but with 34 beaches short compared to 2010, according to information recently provided by the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature.
Posted On 01 Jul 2011
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Prime Minister George Papandreou
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PM Outlines New Tourism Measures

“We must give tourism a leading role in Greece’s effort for development,” the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises’ (SETE) newly elected president, Andreas Andreadis, said to Prime Minister George Papandreou while assuming his presidency during the association’s 19th General...
Posted On 01 Jun 2011
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GNTO's stand at Summer Holidays Expo 2011.
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Summer Holidays Expo Debut In Athens

Athens citizens had the opportunity to better plan their summer vacation among a vast variety of top Greek destinations last month at the 5th Summer Holidays Expo international fair held at the Helexpo Palace exhibition center in Marousi, Athens.
Posted On 01 Jun 2011
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The Committee on Tourism of the German Bundestag also held a meeting last month with the Thessaloniki Tourism Organization at the premises of Helexpo in Thessaloniki. During the meeting, the president of the Thessaloniki Tourism Organization, Yiannis Boutaris (center), requested the German delegation’s support for the Greek city’s candidacy as European Youth Capital 2014.
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German Tourism Committee Visits Athens

Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos last month welcomed a proposal for Greece to participate in a Greek-German tourism summit in Berlin, Germany, that would give Greece the opportunity to promote tourism investment possibilities.
Posted On 01 Jun 2011
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A small display of past Olympic Airways crew and ground staff uniforms at the event held at the Olympic Airways Workers’ Cultural Center. According to the cultural center, over 10,000 exhibit pieces of the country’s aviation history exists. In 2009 the center submitted documentation to the Finance Ministry to set up a public benefit foundation under the title “Aviation Museum.”
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Greek Aviation History At Hellinikon

The Olympic Airways Workers’ Cultural Center held an event last month and aimed to show the necessity of establishing an Aviation Museum in Greece.
Posted On 01 May 2011
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Sea Tourism Forum To Launch Next Month

The potential for sea tourism and the development of the economies of Greece, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region will be examined during the first Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum, scheduled to take place 21-22 June at the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens.
Posted On 01 May 2011
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Minister Requests E.U. Help On Visa Issue

The Schengen treaty constrains Greek tourism and particularly Greece’s “soon to be” biggest markets such as Russia, China, India and Turkey, Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos told the group of Socialist European Parliament deputies in Athens in late March.
Posted On 01 May 2011
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Greek Hoteliers To Unite And Attract Luxury Tourists

Greek hoteliers are planning to design a new tourism package, gain a leading role in luxury tourism and attract visitors of high income, the Greek press said last month.
Posted On 01 May 2011
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Each year, IGLTA hosts an annual convention in a different spot around the globe and attendees are travel and media professionals representing the GLBT industry worldwide.
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Gay Tourism Promoted By Greek Private Sector

“Athens has the potential to become a tourism destination for gay travelers because the city has places for them to go but, for them to stay several days here, advertising promotion by the Culture and Tourism Ministry is required,” the president and managing director of...
Posted On 01 May 2011
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Greece Approaches India’s Market

“The Indian market right now is untouched but it’s a tourism source for our country that has significant potential,” according to Maya Tsokli, Member of the Greek Parliament, in charge of PASOK's parliament group on tourism.
Posted On 01 May 2011
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