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Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos (third from left) looks on as UNWTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai addresses the Greek media on issues and challenges facing tourism in the context of the current economic situation in Europe.

Mixed Forecasts For Greek Tourism

“It is unrealistic to expect an increase in arrivals to Greece this year,” Taleb Rifai, the secretary general of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) said last month during a joint press conference in Athens with Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos.

Posted On 01 May 2012

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Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos (left) and SETE's President Andreas Andreadis discuss tourism issues at a recent event in Athens. Over the past few months, Mr. Yeroulanos was in constant consultations with tourism professionals on the creation of the “Marketing Greece” company, which is expected to be a useful tool for the country.

Public-Private Tourism Marketing Company Becomes Official

The Greek Government approved an amendment tabled in Parliament last month that opened the way for the establishment of a public-private marketing company for Greek tourism. The amendment was tabled by Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos and specifically involved a...

Posted On 01 May 2012

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Archive photo of old GNTO poster. “After World War II, the Hellenic Republic embarked on a new, flexible, bureaucracy-free organization so as to address tourism in a new perspective,” a GNTO press release said on account of the organization’s 60-year anniversary since its reestablishment.

GNTO Celebrates 60th Birthday

“The Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) is a historical organization that today the country needs more than ever,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos said during the organization’s 60-year anniversary event held in late March at the Acropolis Museum.

Posted On 01 May 2012

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The deputy head of the visa policy unit of the European Commission, Diederik Paalman, appeared quite defensive during the conference, held recently at the new Acropolis Museum, on the Schengen visa process. Mr. Paalman brushed off all negative opinions expressed by tourism figures and urged member states to improve staff coverage in embassies and consulates and to open up new visa centers in remote cities to reduce visa-waiting times at centers.

Schengen Visa Regime Topic Of Debate In Athens

“The commission is looking into the issue of long waiting lines to obtain a visa, but also member states do not put their money where their mouths are as they should include more staff in consulates,” argued Diederik Paalman, deputy head of the visa policy unit of the European...

Posted On 01 May 2012

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GNTO stand at ITB 2012.

German Tourists Encouraged To Holiday In Greece At ITB 2012

The Greek tourism leadership was up against a complex task at the 46th ITB Berlin travel trade show last month while restoring Greece’s reputation as a top and safe destination. Tourism officials were obliged to make a great effort to reverse the negative climate that currently...

Posted On 01 Apr 2012

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Give Greece A Chance

“Greece Is Changing” Initiative Launched

A group of leading Greek businessmen recently decided to take matters into their own hands and joined forces to promote full page advertisements in various European newspapers and invite Europeans to take a closer look at Greece’s path of reform to ensure its commitment to Europe.

Posted On 01 Apr 2012

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Hellenic Chamber of Hotels President Yiorgos Tsakiris (center) identified the main receptors of social tourism that include Macedonia with 20 percent, Ipiros with 18 percent and Central Greece with 16 percent. “If the program is abolished, automatically 7,500 jobs would be lost mainly in the mentioned destinations, which are areas with low per capita income,” he stressed.

Hotel Chamber Proposes To Run Subsidized Tourism Holiday Programs

The Hellenic Chamber of Hotels last month submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security that aims to modernize the subsidized social tourism holiday programs—that secure domestic tourism—in an environment of free competition.

Posted On 01 Apr 2012

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UNWTO To Advance Common Agenda On Visa

UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, last month called on the tourism sector to unite around the issue of travel facilitation as a means to stimulate demand and, as a result, create jobs.

Posted On 01 Apr 2012

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UK Travel Federations Urge Greece To Save Its Image

Consumers in the UK are choosing alternative destinations for holiday this year as a result of the constant negative publicity focused on Greece (which consumers see as not just Athens but the islands too), according to an open letter sent to Greek officials last month by three...

Posted On 01 Apr 2012

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Greece’s Tarnished Image Puts 2012 Tourism In Limbo

“There are many Germans who are afraid to come to Greece,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos informed Greece’s head of state President Carolos Papoulias last month after his visit to the 46th ITB Berlin travel trade show in Germany.

Posted On 01 Apr 2012

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Culture and Tourism Minister At 7th HO.RE.CA.

Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos cuts the inauguration ribbon of the 7th HO.RE.CA. show in the presence of prominent personalities from the Greek food service and hospitality sectors.

Posted On 01 Mar 2012

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“I think this year's HO.RE.CA. is perhaps the most important ‘message’ we have heard, saw and felt this year as tourism industry representatives,” President of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, Giorgos Tsakiris, said during the inauguration ceremony of the 7th HO.RE.CA.. Mr. Tsakiris said he was “speechless” and very impressed by the high number of visitors that attended the trade show.

7th HO.RE.CA. Leaves Best Of Impressions

“It doesn't take much to see that this is not the time for politicians but the time for entrepreneurs and professionals… Last year was a really great year and hopefully the same will happen in 2012,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos said during the inauguration...

Posted On 01 Mar 2012

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Google Greece’s general director, Stefanos Loukakos, had a one-on-one interview with Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos during the travel forum. On the subject of Turkey attracting more tourists than Greece, the culture and tourism minister said the reason was because tourists are not required to have a visa to enter Turkey as opposed to Greece. “Europe does not see tourism as it should,” he stressed referring to the strict requirements of the Schengen Visa that keeps tourists from India and China out of Greece.

Google Shows Tourism Potential Via The Internet

“Follow the advice of Woody Allen (US movie actor, comedian and director) that 80 percent of success is just showing up...Go where the users are, go where the users are looking for you,” the general director of Google Greece, Stefanos Loukakos, said last month when he opened the...

Posted On 01 Mar 2012

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Minister Wants Out Of Schengen Visa Procedures

Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos recently highlighted the importance of free movement of tourists around the world and underlined the need to change the Schengen visa procedure in order for it “to stop being a burden on tourism.

Posted On 01 Mar 2012

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Minister Presents Tourism Omnibus Bill For Growth

The time period for the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) to grant licenses for Greek tourist accommodation will be reduced from 240 days to 60 days, according to arrangements contained in an omnibus bill presented in late December 2011 by Culture and Tourism Minister...

Posted On 01 Feb 2012

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Opinions Vary On 2012 Greek Tourism Growth

“Tourism went well this year,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos said during an interview to the Greek press in late December.

Posted On 01 Feb 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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Tour Bus Profession Opens, KTEL Bus Profession Stays Closed

Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos sparked an angry reaction from tourism professionals recently when he signed a ministerial decision in November, which liberalized the tour bus profession so licenses would be easier obtained while the profession of KTEL intercity...

Posted On 01 Jan 2012

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Greek Museums And Sites Get New Standards

“Our goal is for all monuments to provide the basic services to the visitor,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos said while reviewing the progress of the ministry’s three-year plan to upgrade services of archaeological sites and museums. The program was launched in...

Posted On 01 Jan 2012

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Athens’ Tourism Continues To Decline

“With the current bipartisan composition of the Culture and Tourism Ministry, we will not understand, justify, explain, accept or even tolerate the possibility of failure to implement concrete promises, commitments and agreed procedures towards a common direction,” Yiannis...

Posted On 01 Jan 2012

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