Destinations news Athens’ Tourism Continues To Decline by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 “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 … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Event News Hotel Chamber Blasts New Property Tax At First General Assembly by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 “We were considered a heavy industry until the State decided to proceed with the collection of property tax through electricity,” President of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels Yiorgos Tsakiris said … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Laws, Regulations & Policy SETE Releases “Must Do” List For Tourism-Related Ministers by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 President of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE), Andreas Andreadis, appeared quite outspoken last month and received a round of applause from the audience on the first day of … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Athens Airport Launches Incentives To Support Summer Traffic by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 Athens International Airport (AIA) last month launched three incentives to support airlines and help maintain/increase passenger traffic for this year’s summer season. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Event News Travelport Holds Workshop For Travel Agents On Crete by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 Travelport, a broad-based business services provider to the global travel industry, held a workshop last month for travel agencies in Rethymno, Crete, to brief travel agents on the company’s new … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates MIG’s Blue Star Delos Launched In The Aegean by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 “The country’s reconstruction can be started only through strong entrepreneurship from strong investments that will create new jobs and this must be understood by the government, trade unions and all … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Laws, Regulations & Policy Visa Centers To Open In Turkey by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis last month paved the way for the creation of visa centers in Antalya and Bodrum (Halicarnassus) so to facilitate the movement of tourists … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Former Hotel In City Center To Become Student Dorm by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 The former La Mirage hotel that overlooks Omonia Square is to be converted into a student hall of residence, according to a recently announced joint initiative by the Environment Ministry, … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Makedonia Palace Hotel Calls It Quits by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 The Greek tourism sector was shocked and deeply saddened last month when the Daskalantonakis Group announced the permanent closure of the historic Macedonia Palace hotel as of 27 December 2011. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality TUI Sparks Panic With Drachma Warning To Greek Hoteliers by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 “In recent months, one of the reasons we got into this situation was the misinformation and the fact that markets made reckless movements without taking data and results under consideration,” … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Event News Limited Participation At This Year’s Philoxenia by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 The Greek tourism sector may have been somewhat reluctant in participating in the 27th Philoxenia International Tourism Exhibition due to the country’s financial crisis but according to Deputy Culture and … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE WTM Report Bashes Governments’ Indifference To Tourism by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 “The world’s governments should do more to support travel and tourism,” World Travel Market’s Chairman Fiona Jeffery told the industry during her opening speech at the tourism fair at ExCel … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE SETE Proposes Joint Tourism Strategy by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 Although the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises’ (SETE) tenth annual tourism and development conference was slightly overshadowed by Greek political instability and uncertainty last month it will remain in history … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Greece Gets New Leader, Coalition Government Formed by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 Former vice president of the European Central Bank, Lucas Papademos, was designated Greece’s new interim Prime Minister on 10 November in a new coalition government composed by the PASOK, New … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Alexandra Beach Hotel & Bungalows Hosts 2011 Special Olympic Athletes by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 Alexandra Beach Hotel & Bungalows on Zakynthos was among hotels that hosted Special Olympic athletes for four days during the Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011 held this past … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Event News Athens Hosts 8th Greek-Turkish Forum on Tourism by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 President of the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agencies (HATTA) Giorgos Telonis, Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister George Nikitiadis, Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos and his Turkish counterpart, … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Government Called To Care About Shipping by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 “Our coastal transport is shipping but also tourism and the tourism development of our country is based on the tourism development of the islands, which demands good ferry services,” Mihalis … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Multi-Conference Holds Tourism Session by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 “The coming years could be very exciting for the Greek tourism product as long as the promises of its establishment within the central development policy actually take place,” the president … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Air Traffic Controllers Anger Tourism Professionals by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 “Your repeated strikes, walkouts and “white strikes” are killing tourism and have brought all domestic tourism businesses to the verge of destruction,” the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Tourism Enterprises (GEPOET) stressed … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Destinations news Greece Celebrates World Tourism Day With Strikes by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 World Tourism Day was celebrated on 27 September globally around the theme “Tourism–Linking Cultures” and highlighted tourism’s role in bringing the cultures of the world together and promoting global understanding … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
