Company updates

MSC Cruises will deploy its MSC Lirica cruise ship to the Eastern Mediterranean market for the summer 2022 and homeport in Piraeus, Greece, during the entire season.

Luxury boutique hotel OMMA Santorini in Greece is included on the list of the Best Hotels in Europe for 2021 released by LLM Magazine.

Crete-based Reload Hotel Sales Management has appointed Yota Drakopoulou as its new Account Executive.

Real estate investment company Everty has acquired the Iconic Santorini, a luxury boutique hotel on the popular Greek island of Santorini.

The Metaxa Hospitality Group was named “Brand of the Year” at the Cretan Taste Awards 2021 held in Heraklion.

Travelport and Cathay Pacific have extended their long-standing partnership with a renewed and expanded multi-source content distribution agreement.

Lamda Development will invest over 600 million euros in a new state-of-the-art commercial center at the former Athens airport on the city’s southern coast.

Attica Group, a leading coastal shipping company in Greece, has expanded its activities to the hospitality sector with the acquisition of a hotel on the Greek island of Naxos.

Cyprus Airways will resume flights to Athens with three weekly flights on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

French tourist bureau Atout France has focused on sustainable, green and slow tourism in the new Greek edition of ‘Explore France’, its official travel magazine.

The Hotel Grande Bretagne in Athens has ushered in the holidays with its Christmas tree lighting.

Sabre Corporation and American Express GBT have entered into a strategic partnership focused on developing technologies to advance corporate travel distribution.

Travelport, a worldwide leader in travel retail, has made a new distribution agreement with International Airlines Group (IAG), one of the world’s largest airline groups.

Accor has announced the launch of the Emblems Collection, a unique global portfolio of boutique hotels and luxury resorts.

Ryanair has added two additional routes to Greece’s Summer 2022 schedule that connect the island of Corfu with Ukraine and Croatia.

TravelStaytion has been selected as an official connectivity provider of Homes & Villas by Marriott International.

Following an impressive fashion show in Athens last summer, Dior has taken its ‘Cruise 2022’ collection to more Greek destinations.

KLM has been awarded with the 2022 World Class Award for its safety and sustainability practices by the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX).

The Grecotel Kos Imperial hotel has received two significant certifications that highlight the quality of the services offered to its guests.

Global technology company Travelport has reached a commercial agreement on NDC distribution with Air France-KLM.