Company updates Athenaeum Inter-Continental Opens Newly Designed Conference Area by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 The Athenaeum Inter-Continental Athens has reopened its ballroom following a 950-million drachma renovation of what is considered one of the largest conference venues in Greece. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Leptos Group Renovates Panorama Hotel On Crete by GTP editing team 1 September 2000 by GTP editing team 1 September 2000 The Panorama hotel unit in Chania recently became the latest member of the Cyprus-based Leptos Hotels & Resorts group. The 167-room first-class unit immediately underwent an extensive refurbishing program. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Porto Carras’s New Owners Renovate And Expand Unit by GTP editing team 1 September 2000 by GTP editing team 1 September 2000 Plans for an extensive renovation of the Porto Carras complex in Halkidiki, northern Greece, will proceed despite an outstanding legal decision concerning management of the unit’s casino. One of the … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Louis Hotels Opens New Zakynthos Unit by GTP editing team 1 September 2000 by GTP editing team 1 September 2000 The Cypriot-based Louis Group is securing a firm foothold in Greece through buyouts of existing hotels and the construction of new units. Its most recent purchase was the Louis Imperial … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Astir Resort Expects Five Billion From Stock Float by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 Greece’s National Bank, owner of the Astir Hotel Company, has placed the three-hotel group on the Athens Stock Exchange. The initial public offering last month places 14.7 billion drachmas within … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Greek Hotels Expensive by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 Up-market Greek hotels for business travelers are on the average the fourth most expensive in the world. And it looks like prices are going even higher. According to a study … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Louis Hotels Buys Colossos Beach by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 One of the biggest and best-known first-class resort complex in Greece, the 472-room Colossos Beach of Rodos, is now in the hands of Louis Hotels. Furthermore, with its purchase of … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Athenaeum InterContinental Renews Conference Areas by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 The biggest conference venue within the City of Athens, the ballroom at the Athenaeum InterContinental hotel, is undergoing extensive renovations worth 950 million drachmas. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Athens Hotel Owners Agree To 2004 Room Availability by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 Athens hoteliers have agreed to set aside 80 percent of the capital’s beds to accommodate the Olympic family during the 2004 Games. At a meeting last month with Development Minister … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Plans Underway To Merge Grande Bretagne And King George Hotels by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 The Hyatt group of Thessaloniki, which has acquired a majority of shares in the Grande Bretagne hotel, and the Latsis-owned Eurobank are said to be close to finalizing an agreement … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Athens Chandris Transformation Includes Name Change by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 by GTP editing team 1 August 2000 Upon completion of its extensive and even radical renovations, at a cost of some five billion drachmas, the Athens Chandris Hotel assumes a new identity. The deluxe cosmopolitan unit heretofore … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Hyatt Regency Buys Grande Bretagne Shares by GTP editing team 1 June 2000 by GTP editing team 1 June 2000 Through share purchases on the Athens Stock Exchange, the Hyatt Regency of Thessaloniki purchased at least 17% of the Athens-central deluxe hotel Grand Bretagne. Hyatt said it would acquire additional … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Athens Hotels Strike Deal With Olympic Commitee by GTP editing team 1 June 2000 by GTP editing team 1 June 2000 A partial deal between the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee and the capital’s hoteliers’ union on accommodation for Olympic Games’ visitors to Athens was reached last month with the assistance of … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Hyatt Looks To Expand by GTP editing team 1 May 2000 by GTP editing team 1 May 2000 Greece’s Hyatt Regency aims to expand its hotel-casino business in the immediate future to countries outside of Greece, says the company’s chairman, Georgos Galanakis. He did not, however, exclude expansion … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Chios Chandris Reopens by GTP editing team 1 May 2000 by GTP editing team 1 May 2000 The Chandris hotel group recently completed a billion-drachma renovation of its unit on Chios island as part of efforts to meet the growing demands of the tourism market. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Tourism Units Head For Stock Market by GTP editing team 1 May 2000 by GTP editing team 1 May 2000 At least four tourism enterprises head for the Athens Stock Exchange this year in search for cash. The Astir Group wants 18 billion drachmas, the Divanis group 20 billion, the … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Airotel Group Expansion Centers On Quality by GTP editing team 1 April 2000 by GTP editing team 1 April 2000 Stratos Vasilikos is one of the few in the Greek tourism industry who realized early that quality is the only way to compete and make money. In a step-by-step approach, … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Nafplio Xenia Taken Over By Mantonanakis Group by GTP editing team 1 April 2000 by GTP editing team 1 April 2000 The Mantonanakis Group recently signed an agreement for the long-term lease of the Xenia Akronafplias hotel group of Nafplio, which is owned by the Hellenic Tourism Organisation (EOT). The organization’s … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Utell launches ‘Discover Greece 2000’ by GTP editing team 1 March 2000 by GTP editing team 1 March 2000 Utell, the worldwide hotel reservations and marketing service of REZsolutions, has launched ‘Discover Greece 2000’ program in conjunction with Astra Hotels. A dozen destinations within Greece are spotlighted within the … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Destinations news Star City Project Begins Next Month by GTP editing team 1 March 2000 by GTP editing team 1 March 2000 Construction on a major league tourism and recreation park in the Athens area gets underway next month. The 18-billion-drachma “Star City” venture covers some 278,000 square meters of beachfront property … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
