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Vagonetto's project manager Socrates Tsamoutalis and the park's managing director, Leonidas Vamvakaris, during a dinner break after a recent travel agent familiarization tour of the park.

Vagonetto-Fokis Mining Park A Laudable Tourism Attractio

There are many captivating mining parks around the world. In Greece there's the Vagonetto-Fokis Mining Park, just kilometers away from popular sites such as Delphi, Arachova, Itea, Gravia, Amfissa and Galaxidi. This fascinating park has nothing to envy from its global...

Posted On 01 Feb 2004

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Tourism Key Economic Activity for Foreign Investment

Greece is emerging as a hub of inter-European networks in the Balkans and hopes to attract large investment schemes in key sectors such as energy and tourism, Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos told a conference on "Greece: The Economic Center of Southeastern Europe" held...

Posted On 01 Feb 2004

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New Railway Section Cuts Travel Time

Prime Minister Costas Simitis, along with Transport Minister Christos Verelis, last month inaugurated a new, improved section of the Athens-Thessaloniki railway that cuts travel time between Greece's two major cities by 27 minutes, to four hours and 30 minutes. "What was once...

Posted On 01 Feb 2004

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Superfast I will be delivered to her new owners at the end of this month.

Superfast Ferry Sold to Italian Group

Attica Enterprises announced last month that Atlantic Navigazione of Grimaldi Group, Napoli, has entered into an agreement with its wholly owned subsidiary Superfast Ferries to acquire the fast ferry Superfast I.

Posted On 01 Feb 2004

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Greece’s newest golf course on the island of Crete.

Renewed Interest in Golf Investment

The Greek tourism sector, struggling to defend its share of the market against cheaper rivals such as Turkey and other Mediterranean nations, is eager to stretch its season beyond the summer months and become more than a sun-and-sea paradise for holidaymakers that are on a budget.

Posted On 01 Feb 2004

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Government Replaces Its Tourism Leaders

The government says it will present a comprehensive restructuring plan for the country's tourism administration. The announcement followed the replacement of government tourism leaders and the reshuffling of responsibilities among the Development Ministry's General Secretariat...

Posted On 01 Jan 2004

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The first panel of experts on quality in the workplace included professional conference organizer, Nikos Lavrentides; the president of the Chamber of Greek Hotels, Makis Fokas; and the president of the Greek Union of Air Travel Agents, Spiros Ginis.

Students Enthused With Tourism Quality Seminar

As a part of European Quality Week, the Greek Marketing Institute held a tourism seminar recently on "Quality in the Workplace: Make it Happen!" Although few tourism professionals arrived, a good number of tourism marketing students were on hand and had the opportunity to hear...

Posted On 01 Jan 2004

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The SkyTeam workshop proved to be one of the most popular local travel events of 2003.

SkyTeam Workshop Entices Top Travel Agencies

More than a hundred of Greece's top travel agents arrived last month at the rooftop restaurant and bar area of the Hilton Athens to take part in a workshop organized by SkyTeam airline representatives here in Greece -- Aeromexico, Air France, Alitalia, CSA Czech Airlines, Delta...

Posted On 01 Jan 2004

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Delta's commercial director for Greece and Cyprus, Dimitris Karagioules.

Delta Adds New Athens-New York Flight

From June 3 until September 30 of this year, Delta adds a second direct flight from Athens to New York, says the U.S. airline's commercial director for Greece and Cyprus, Dimitris Karagioules. The new flight will leave Athens every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Posted On 01 Jan 2004

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Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos opened this year's Greek tourism fair with a general speech on tourism and emphasized tourism development in northern Greece in light of Thessaloniki's bid to host the world's biggest exhibition, Expo, in 2008.

19th Philoxenia Uneventful

Greece's tourism fair Philoxenia 2003, October 30-November 2, arrived and left this year with little fanfare. For the most part, exhibitors simply said that like every other year the exhibition gives us a chance to see some old friends and business acquaintances. But this year,...

Posted On 01 Dec 2003

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Alessandro Amadeo, Alitalia's general manager for Greece and Cyprus.

Alitalia Inaugurates Flights from Thessaloniki to Milan

At a time when most airlines are concentrating on cutting costs and routes, Alitalia took a brave step forward and opened a new route from Thessaloniki to Milan recently with two daily flights. The first flight leaves Thessaloniki at 6:20 and the second at 13:30. Alessandro...

Posted On 01 Dec 2003

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Greece’s Tourism Sector Fighting to Survive

Greek hoteliers described tourism as being at its lowest ebb in 30 years, “and the government is doing nothing to help,” said Vassilis Miniades, president of the Panhellenic Hoteliers' Association, during a recent press call.

Posted On 01 Dec 2003

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Research Institute Sees Continual Tourism Decline

Greece's tourism sector continued to fall further behind its foreign competitors during the first nine-month period of this year, according to the latest report published by the Institute for Tourism Research and Forecasting.

Posted On 01 Dec 2003

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John Harding, president of the Association of British Travel Agents, and Yiannis Patellis, president of the Hellenic Tourism Organization, officially opened the Greek pavilion at this year's World Travel Market tourism fair.

Greece Stand Prominent at World Travel Market

After last year's fiasco, the London office of the Hellenic Tourism Organization worked closely with the head office this year. In the end, the office and its staff did a superior job in organizing its Greek presentation at one of the world's biggest travel and tourism fairs,...

Posted On 01 Dec 2003

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Yiannis Evangelou, President Hellenic Association of Travel & Tourism Agents

Yiannis Evangelou

We live in a world where everything quickly changes on the world tourism stage with new tourism products, new consumer trends and increased international competition. Recent problems confronted by the tourism industry forced all, but particularly airlines and travel agents, to...

Posted On 01 Nov 2003

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Marios Trivizas, President, Panhellenic Federation of Tourism Enterprises

Marios Trivizas

Unfortunately, we see no change towards the better for incoming tourism next year. Last year, and the year before, incoming dropped five percent and six percent respectively and for this year we foresee as much as a fifteen-percent drop in arrivals. The drop in arrivals from...

Posted On 01 Nov 2003

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Tassos Mais, commercial director for Hellas Jet; Constandinos Loizides, president of Cyprus Airways; and Georgos Politakis and Stavros Agathithelou, representatives of the investing banks Omega and Alpha.

Hellas Jet Officially in the Air

Greece's newest airline, Hellas Jet, held its first meet last month to officially inaugurate its airline and flights from Athens to Brussels, London, Zurich and Paris as it finally received all necessary licenses. Company officials said the carrier would claim a leading role in...

Posted On 01 Nov 2003

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Tourism Secretariat to Take over Tourism Organization

If Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos's recent announcement comes to pass, the Hellenic Tourism Organization will be merged with the development ministry's general secretariat for tourism and a new company, EOT SA, will undertake Greece's promotion as a tourism destination,...

Posted On 01 Nov 2003

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Gulf Air's Luke Medley, John Butler and James Hogan -the carrier's president and chief executive officer- with Olympic Airways' head, Dionysis Kalophonos and the airline's Costas Mavrikis.

Olympic-Gulf Air Agreement for Athens-Sydney

Flights to Australia from Greece are to start again from November 23, nearly a year after they were suspended, thanks to a deal between Olympic Airways and Gulf Air, the managing directors of the two carriers announced in early September.

Posted On 01 Nov 2003

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Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos (right).

Government Talks of Tourism Reforms

Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos told journalists last month that the government hoped tourism would soon become "the basic economic factor in our country's economic and social development."

Posted On 01 Nov 2003

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