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Greek Islands for Sale

Recent press reports say that more than 60 private Greek islands are up for sale and have peaked the interest of domestic and foreign investors, and international tourism groups.
Posted On 01 Sep 2005
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Travel Agents No Longer Issue Passports

Greek travel agents soon will no longer be able to issue passports to customers. As of this coming January, Greeks will have to visit one of the 90 new centers being set up around the country where they can obtain or renew their passports, government announced last month. The new...
Posted On 01 Sep 2005
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Alexandros Panagopoulos, Superfast Ferries’ president & managing director.
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Freedom for Coastal Shipping, or Bust

Alexandros Panagopoulos, president and managing director of Superfast Ferries, told guests at last month's Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises meeting that unless coastal shipping is liberalized, now, the entire sector would fall into decay.
Posted On 01 Aug 2005
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Billions Available for Greek Port Development Projects

Government last month announced a 3-billion-euro makeover project for Greek ports. The Merchant Marine Ministry said Greece has secured a loan worth 3 billion euros from the European Investment Bank, but reminds that specialists say that the regeneration project actually demands...
Posted On 01 Aug 2005
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Tourism Properties Turned Over to Private Investors

A number of properties of the Tourism Development Company are soon to turned over to private enterprises through long-term leasing agreements, and thus bring some much-needed coins to the state.
Posted On 01 Aug 2005
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Greece’s Airways Back to Safety Level 1

After spending about five years in safety Limbo, the Greek Civil Aviation Authority recently was upgraded to the first category in flight safety by the U.S. federal aviation authority.
Posted On 01 Aug 2005
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Dr. Martin Buck, director of travel and logistics at Messe Berlin's Competence Center, with Panagiotis Skordas, director of the Hellenic Tourism Organization in Germany.
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Greece Selected ITB 2006 Official Partner

The official partner country at the International Tourism Exchange ITB Berlin from 8 to 12 March 2006 is to be Greece. The decision was announced by Dr. Martin Buck, director of travel and logistics at Messe Berlin's Competence Center, and Panagiotis Skordas, director of the...
Posted On 01 Aug 2005
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Greece’s National Tourism Council Meets in Thessaloniki

Greece's tourism industry will see stronger-than-projected growth this year, Tourism Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos said during a meeting in Thessaloniki with the National Tourism Council.
Posted On 01 Aug 2005
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Ministries Cooperate to Promote Ancient Greek World

At a joint press conference held at Zappeion Hall last month, the minister of tourism, the minister for the Aegean, and deputy ministers for the economy and for culture presented an ambitious series of conferences to be held through-out the summer.
Posted On 01 Aug 2005
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Two New National Parks

In a major environmental move aimed at protecting the country's ecosystem, the government last month signed an agreement that will transform 76,000 hectares of forest and wetlands in northern Greece into two national parks.
Posted On 01 Aug 2005
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Major Reforestation Project to Promote Sustainable Tourism

The forest that runs along the Nestos River in Greece's northeastern corner, one of the largest of its kind in Europe, is regaining its former stature. As it regenerates it will once again become a source of life for communities near one of the country's largest flowing bodies of...
Posted On 01 Aug 2005
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WTTC Praises Greek Tourism

The positive prospects of Greek tourism were praised by World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) President Jean-Claude Baumgarten during his meeting with Tourism Development Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos last month in Athens.
Posted On 01 Aug 2005
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One of the group's newest complex is located within the commercial zone of Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport Athens.
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Upmarket Travelers’ Services at Olympus Plaza Parks

Olympus Plaza Food Parks, a group of companies formed by Everest (a food company with 51% ownership of Olympic Catering) and Macedonian Shipping Agencies (providers for transport, tourism and the cruise ship companies), continues its expansion program.
Posted On 01 Aug 2005
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Greece's newly-appointed secretary general of the Hellenic Tourism Organization, Georgos Foteinopoulos (right), with Tourism Development Minister Dimitris Avrampopoulos and Hellenic Tourism Organization President Aristidis Kalogeropoulos.
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Tourism Minister Proposes Tourism Chamber

Our tourism sector needs to agree on problems and solutions and the best was to achieve this is through the introduction of a tourism chamber where all branches of the sector can get together and hammer out solutions, said Tourism Development Minister Dimitris Avrampopoulos...
Posted On 01 Jul 2005
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Hellenic Chamber of Hotels President Makis Fokas announces the tourism professionals to be awarded by the chamber this year.
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Hotel Chamber Holds Annual Tourism Awards

This year's Hellenic Chamber of Hotels' tourism awards took on a completely new face. Not only were the awards held within an up-market atmosphere, but also instead of a barrage of awards for everything and everybody, the chamber decided on a smaller number for specific reasons.
Posted On 01 Jul 2005
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Greek travel agents during their recent visit to Syria.
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Greece and Syria to Create Common Tourism Packages

Twenty-four outgoing travel specialists from Greece visited Syria recently to get a better idea of what that country has to offer to the Greek traveler, and to discuss ways in which the Syrian and Greek agents could work together to create common business agreements.
Posted On 01 Jul 2005
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George Chrissanthakopoulos, sales manager for TUI Hellas and Christos Constantinidis, director of corporate services for TUI Hellas, announce new sports-related tourism agreement.
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Sports Tourism Moves to the Forefront

Sports tourism agreements appear plentiful of late with major companies like TUI Hellas taking more interest in the sector, and with the government ready to create a World Athletics Museum.
Posted On 01 Jul 2005
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Georgia Tsatsou, Dimitris Mantios and Zacharias Kaplanidis of the Hellenic Association of Professional Conference Organizers.
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Still No Decision On Conference Center

Dimitris Mantios, president of the Hellenic Association of Professional Conference Organizers, told members during the association's general assembly last month, and reporters, that he was very disappointed in the time it's taking government quarters to decide on an Athens...
Posted On 01 Jul 2005
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Katerina Agorogianni, cultural section of the Mexican Embassy; Alejandro Diaz Perez Duarte, Mexican Ambassador to Greece; Maximos Tzanos, vice president of PASENT; and Thanos Vasilopoulos, president of PASENT.
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Tourism Employees Organize Destination Workshops

The Panhellenic Employees Association of Shipping and Tourism Enterprises (PASENT) last month held its last in a series of workshops on foreign destinations. The last was a complete rundown on Mexico as a destination and what it has to offer to Greek travelers, with special...
Posted On 01 Jul 2005
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Athens Launches Summer Cultural Program

A special summer cultural program was announced last month by Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyannis and Athens Municipality Cultural Department chief, Nitsa Loule. The program will spread across several parts of the capital, will run until September 18, and will feature a plethora of...
Posted On 01 Jul 2005
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