MICE Beijing Tourism Fair Promises Strong Outbound Travel Contacts by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 This year’s Beijing International Tourism and Travel Market (BITTM), which takes place in Beijing April 20-23, is proving to be the premiere event of 2005 for world travel brands serious … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Sea Tourism Ferry Owners Confront Government with Demands by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 The Union of Coastal Shipowners late last month presented the government with a series of demands they feel must be confronted and solved in order for them to invest in … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Louis Cruise Lines Brings Yet Another Cruise Vessel to Piraeus by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 Louis Cruise Lines announced the purchase of the cruise ship “Seawing” from My Travel Group plc, in response to the surge in demand for cruises from Piraeus. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Attica Holdings Enters Ro-Ro Market by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 The Board of Attica Holdings S.A. last month announced the delivery of 7,395 GRT, ice-class 1A, Ro-Ro ferry m/v Nordia, capable of carrying approximately 90 unaccompanied freight units. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Airotel Opens Achaia Beach by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 After some two years of radical renovations activity, the Airotel Group of Hotels re-opened its Achaia Beach property, which sits a mere four kilometers from the commercial center and port … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Hotel Occupancy Rates Drop by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 November 2004 saw a considerable decline in occupancy at Athens hotels of all categories, compared with the same month in 2003, according to the Attica Hotel Association. In some categories, … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Larissa Imperial Opens in Thessalia by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 by GTP editing team 1 February 2005 Grecotel’s newest hotel, the Larissa Imperial, held its grand opening recently amid hundreds of special guests from the political and cultural sectors. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel BA Closes Athens Bookings Department by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 British Airways, in an ongoing attempt to cut costs, will move its bookings department from its Athens office to a call center on Cyprus. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Laws, Regulations & Policy New Development Law Receives Positive Reactions by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 Tourism entrepreneurs were generally positive to the government’s new investment incentives bill, which supports small and medium-sized enterprises and contains a special chapter on tourism. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Destinations news Prime Minister Wants Athens a Year-round Tourism Destination by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 Olympic installations will remain in the hands of the state and will leave a lasting legacy by making Attica a year-round tourist attraction and by upgrading the quality of life … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Niche markets Alternative Tourism a Priority by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 The Hellenic Tourism Organization has set the development of alternative forms of tourism as a priority, the organization’s secretary-general, Haris Kokkosis, told a special event on winter tourism that was … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Event News Conference Tourism Most Dynamic Greek Tourism Sector by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 If there is one thing certain as a result of a country holding the Olympic Games it’s that conference tourism to that country increases substantially over a five-year period. But … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Surveys, Trends & Stats Initial Indications for 2005 Tourism Not Especially Optimistic by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 Members of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises say the initial indications for 2005 do not justify any special optimism and that unless the government speeds up its promised tourism … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Happenings Attica Hoteliers Promised New Conference Center By Early 2005 by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 The Taekwondo sports complex on the Athens seaside at Faliron will be turned into a conference center that will be ready by this March, said Tourism Development Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Niche markets Senior Travel Highly Profitable for Destinations by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 by GTP editing team 1 January 2005 Youthful elderly people in Greece, especially when they have a satisfactory pension, are beginning to change the traditional image. They now have a social life as they go to the … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Surveys, Trends & Stats Implementation of Announced Tourism Development Measures Imperative by GTP editing team 1 December 2004 by GTP editing team 1 December 2004 Europe’s tourism specialists seem to be coming around to the view that the era of Greek improvisation is over and that a long-term strategy is evolving. “In 2005, you will … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Philoxenia Celebrates 20th Year by GTP editing team 1 December 2004 by GTP editing team 1 December 2004 This year’s Philoxenia tourism fair, the 20th, was another successful one according to its organizing body, Hel-expo. It announced increases in stand participation and increases in the number of visitors. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE WTM Signals New Start for World Tourism by GTP editing team 1 December 2004 by GTP editing team 1 December 2004 There were no unpleasant surprises at his year’s World Travel Market held in London last month. On the contrary, the tourism fair was again extremely well organized and and a … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Lost Opportunity for Many by GTP editing team 1 December 2004 by GTP editing team 1 December 2004 Greece’s first conference on the meetings industry, organized last month by Kostas Konstantinidis of Heliotopos Conferences, welcomed some 140 delegates. Few of these, however, were hoteliers or regional authority leaders … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Aegean Airlines Europe’s Best by GTP editing team 1 November 2004 by GTP editing team 1 November 2004 The European Regions Airline Association voted Aegean Airlines the Airline of the Year for 2004-2005. The 230-member association represents 70 European airline companies active in 250 European airports. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
