Hellenic Hoteliers Federation Announces New President, Board of Directors

The Hellenic Hoteliers Federation’s general assembly on October 12. Photo source: POX

Members of the Hellenic Hoteliers Federation (known as POX in Greek) recently elected Greek hotelier Ioannis Hatzis as president of the Board of Directors for the next three years.

The announcement follows the federation’s general assembly held on October 12. Hatzis will succeed Grigoris Tasios who served in the role since 2017.

The new Board of Directors of the Hellenic Federation of Hoteliers is the following:

President
Ioannis Hatzis

Deputy President
Emmanouil Giannoulis

Vice Presidents
Andreas Mandrinos (1st)
Iraklis Tsitlakidis (2nd)
Konstantinos Marinakos (3rd)

Secretary General
Angelos Kallias

Deputy Secretary General
Antigoni Maistrali

Treasurer
Gerasimos Timotheatos

Curator (Public Relations)
Charalambos Voulgaris

Curator (International Relations)
Iordanis Michailidis

Members
Evgenios Vasilikos
Konstantina Svynou

Founded in 1949, the Hellenic Hoteliers Federation is an employers’ organization and represents the hotel enterprises that operate in Greece.

The federation saw an increase in member hotel unions, from 34 to 54, during the last six years.

The Hellenic Hoteliers Federation’s outgoing Board of Directors.

“During these six years we supported each other a lot and developed into a very reliable trade federation,” outgoing president Grigoris Tasios had said prior to the announcement of the new Board of Directors.

Referring to the outgoing Board of Directors, Tasios said that for the last six years the federation managed to rise stronger despite going through years of extremely great difficulties and challenges – such as the financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic.

“That is why we should all be proud of what we have achieved, full of confidence and optimism for what our industry has ahead… During the last six years, the hotel industry became a pillar on which Greece leans on… Our industry became a catalyst for economic recovery and a pillar for the cohesion of society,” he said.