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Ministry Announces Initial 2008 Tourism Data

Prior to an agreement between state tourism officials and the private tourism sector (see page 3), Geece's tourism ministry expressed its satisfaction with this year's tourism figures.
Posted On 01 Oct 2008
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Athens Tourism Before and After the Games

The Athens Tourism and Economic Development Company, in the context of the creation of a ‘tourism observatory’ for the City of Athens, conducted a study entitled ‘Registered Athens Tourism Study—from pre-Olympic to the post-Olympic period: The influence of the Olympic Games and...
Posted On 01 Sep 2008
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EKPOIZO Reports Overpriced Airline Tickets

Consumer organization EKPOIZO recently discovered that advertized airline tickets have serious price variations, some which reached up to 63 percent between the advertized on-line cost and the actual charge.
Posted On 01 Sep 2008
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“Ports that want to promote themselves must offer a one of a kind experience to travelers,” said Bruce Krumrine, vice president of shore operations of Princess Cruises.
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Cruise Tourism in Greece Begins a New Era

Greece can play a leading role and become a hub for itineraries in the Eastern Mediterranean cruise industry, was the unanimous outlook expressed by all leading representatives of the international cruise industry who attended the recent cruise forum CRUISEinGREECE.
Posted On 01 Aug 2008
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Tourism Minister Optimistic

Tourism Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos called a press conference recently and expressed his conclusions on Greek tourism and his optimism in regards to the current image Greece has within the sector.
Posted On 01 Aug 2008
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Superfast Ferries' Roula Malagoniari and Maria Filopoulou, Patra port agency; Iraklis Simitsidellis, commercial director; Ioannis Skoutas, technical director of the maritime sector; Nikos Spahis, passenger services manager; Dimitris Beliyiannis, Ancona port agency; Spyros Paschalis, managing director; George Panayiotides, sales executive for Greece; Tasos Chrysnathopoulos, Patra port agency; Avgoustinos Pitoulis, Igoumenitsa port agency; Liza Michalakakou, capacity manager; Lena Arvaniti, cargo reservations executive; Nikos Kalassarinis, crew director; Christine Pitouli, Igoumenitsa port agency; Nancy Galari, client service executive; Dina Sotiriou, Igoumenitsa port agency; George Tzanos, information technology manager; Victor Karavias, captain; Nikos Triandafillides, client service director; Dimitris Hadjiioannides, hotel operations assistant manager; Roula Spyridakou, marketing assistant; Renato Morandi, Ancona port agency; Maria Kyriacopoulou, Voula Vlagou and Kostas Panayiotakopoulos, Blue Star Ferries Patra port agency, in front of the famous trulli in Alberobello.
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Superfast Ferries FAM Trip for Port Agents

Superfast Ferries recently invited several port agents on a three-day familiarization trip to Italy. The group, made up of company executives from several departments and Adriatic coast port agents from Patra, Igoumenitsa, Corfu, Bari and Ancona, boarded Superfast V for Bari.
Posted On 01 Jul 2008
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Athens Convention Bureau Officially Launched

The Athens Convention Bureau (ACB) was officially launched at IMEX travel exhibition (22-24 April) in Frankfurt. ACB's participation in the exhibition aroused much interest as it has already been included in worldwide conference publications and has launched a pilot website...
Posted On 01 Jun 2008
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Greek Tourism Joins Forces with E! Entertainment

The Tourism Development Ministry and the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) have joined forces with E! Entertainment—the only 24-hour entertainment channel—and signed a memorandum in a bid to attract the "creative class."
Posted On 01 Apr 2008
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Greece Comes Third as Cruise Port of Call

The European Cruise Council (ECC) and MedCruise recently announced the cruise industry now accounts for more than a quarter of a million jobs in Europe, over 10 billion euros direct expenditure and 15 million visits to European ports, Greece’s ports being the third most popular...
Posted On 01 Apr 2008
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Ancient Olympia-Beijing via the Silk Road
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Ancient Olympia to Beijing via the Silk Road

Danae Tezapsidou and Vassilis Mesitidis are the two young Greeks in the team of cyclists that will attempt the bike ride from Ancient Olympia to Beijing via the Silk Road in order to mark the 2008 Olympic Games in China. The ride began from ancient Olympia last month and...
Posted On 01 Apr 2008
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Aegean Airlines Receives First of Ten New Airbus

Aegean Airlines received the first of ten new Airbus A320/1's recently ordered by the airline to replace the six Boeing 737-300/400's, which are in the process of being withdrawn. The airline—whose total investment is some one billion euros—aims to acquire 25 new aircraft in...
Posted On 01 Mar 2008
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Greece and Italy Unite for Rural Tourism

Greece and Italy formed an alliance for rural tourism development through the European Union initiative “Leader+.” The Leader+ program is one of four initiatives financed by European Union structural funds and is designed to help rural administartions consider the long-term...
Posted On 01 Mar 2008
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Director of corporate marketing of Amadeus IT Group, Eddie Ross, with general manager of Amadeus Hellas, Ava Karamanou and consulting associate of Hermes Management Consulting, Santiago Bugallo, during the recent press conference.
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Amadeus Research Reveals Greek Travel Agencies Must Embrace Technology

Amadeus, a leading provider of solutions to the travel industry for the management of distribution and selling of travel services, recently held an event in Athens where results from research revealed the Internet and new technology hold many opportunities for Greek travel...
Posted On 01 Feb 2008
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Youtravel.com Sees Great Success in First Year

Online accommodation supplier Youtravel.com is ambitious in 2008 as in its first year of operation -- launched October 2006 -- the Athens-based company received some 70 million euros revenue from hotel bookings only. According to Youtravel.com founder and chief executive, John...
Posted On 01 Feb 2008
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Azamara Quest cruise ship
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Azamara Quest Embarks and Disembarks from Pireaus Port

Azamara Cruises recently added the refurbished cruise ship Azamara Quest to its fleet, which will conduct cruises in the Mediterranean with Pireaus as the port of embarkation or disembarkation, from June to November 2008.
Posted On 01 Jan 2008
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Actress Evelina Papoulia with tourism development minister, Aris Spiliotopoulos and the prefect of Chalkidiki, Asterios Zografos. Chalkidiki received two awards.
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Philoxenia Tourism Awards 2007

At the Philoxenia tourism awards, Chalkidiki won two awards and received the title for favorite beach destination and the friendliest for families with children destination. Pelion came first in the favorite mountainous or rural destination. Thessaloniki won the first prize in...
Posted On 01 Dec 2007
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The official opening ceremony for Filoxenia 2007 began with the arrival of Greek Tourism Development Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos.
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Philoxenia Affords Opportunity to Flaunt Government Tourism Policies

The 23rd Philoxenia opened its gates to buyers and sellers from all around the world last month with little different to present compared with previous years. The most significant business event took place on opening day as some 100 hosted buyers from some 30 countries met with...
Posted On 01 Dec 2007
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Alexandros Kouris explains the concept behind “branding” to Site members.
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SITE Greek Chapter Organizes Seminar on the Future of Greek Tourism

The Society of Incentive and Travel Executives recently organized a seminar-gathering for its members, where the guest speaker was Alexandros Kouris, PRC group director designate and head of communications business unit. The PRC group is the consultancy that was commissioned with...
Posted On 01 Nov 2007
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Buyers Show Great Interest in 23rd Philoxenia Exhibition

Interest generated by the Philoxenia exhibition (November 1-4, Thessaloniki) for buyers has exceeded expectations a month before the event. Travel agencies and tour operators from 50 countries and some 3,000 potential buyers have contacted the organizers so far, and the list,...
Posted On 01 Oct 2007
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AirSea Lines Suspends Flights to Aegean

AirSea Lines officially suspended its programmed flights from Lavrio seadrome to islands in the Aegean but it said it would continue flights as planned for the Ionian islands and Brindisi, Italy, from Patra.
Posted On 01 Sep 2007
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