Air Travel Olympic Airlines Takes Over Olympic Airways’ Traffic by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 Greece’s national carrier, Olympic Airways, was officially transformed on December 12 into a slimmer, debt-free carrier under the name Olympic Airlines. After 28 years of public ownership, government now hopes … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel SkyTeam Workshop Entices Top Travel Agencies by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 More than a hundred of Greece’s top travel agents arrived last month at the rooftop restaurant and bar area of the Hilton Athens to take part in a workshop organized … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Delta Adds New Athens-New York Flight by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 From June 3 until September 30 of this year, Delta adds a second direct flight from Athens to New York, says the U.S. airline’s commercial director for Greece and Cyprus, … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Aegean Continues Non-stop Expansion by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 Aegean Airlines, the independent Greek airline and ERA award winner, is to launch non-stop flights from Athens to Milan-Linate, Athens to Munich and from Kavala to Munich for the winter … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Tourism Development Depends On You by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 If we want the Greek tourism sector to develop at a satisfactory pace, we in the private sector must take it upon ourselves to do so, said speakers at the … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Germany’s ITB Features Technology Congress by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 The ITB Travel Technology Congress will take place this year from March 14 to 16 in Hall 7.1b during Germany’s ITB travel fair. The opening event, on Sunday, March 14, … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Blue Palace Enters Luxury Collection by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 The Blue Palace Resort & Spa at Elounda on Crete as of January entered the privileged club of distinctive hotels when it became a member of the Starwood Luxury Collection. … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates The New Stratos Vassilikos for that Something Extra by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 The Riva Hotel in the Athens Illisia area is no more. In its place is the new luxury Stratos Vassilikos, an up-market hotel that is different from all the rest. … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Park Opens Bar and Restaurant to the Stars by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 The deluxe Park Hotel, opposite one of the capital’s biggest parks, completed three years of intensive and extensive renovations last month with the opening of its St’ Astra (to the … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Makedonia Palace Completes Renovations by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 Thessaloniki’s Makedonia Palace recently completed the second phase of renovations, which included the radical upgrade of rooms. The all-new rooms now sport material and carpeting from European fabric houses. The … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Athenian Homes Offer Rooms for 2004 Visitors by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 Over 22,000 Athens homes have been offered for rental to foreign visitors during this summer’s Olympics, officials managing the program said last month. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Recruitments Government Replaces Its Tourism Leaders by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 by GTP editing team 1 January 2004 The government says it will present a comprehensive restructuring plan for the country’s tourism administration. The announcement followed the replacement of government tourism leaders and the reshuffling of responsibilities among … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Alitalia Inaugurates Flights from Thessaloniki to Milan by GTP editing team 1 December 2003 by GTP editing team 1 December 2003 At a time when most airlines are concentrating on cutting costs and routes, Alitalia took a brave step forward and opened a new route from Thessaloniki to Milan recently with … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE 19th Philoxenia Uneventful by GTP editing team 1 December 2003 by GTP editing team 1 December 2003 Greece’s tourism fair Philoxenia 2003, October 30-November 2, arrived and left this year with little fanfare. For the most part, exhibitors simply said that like every other year the exhibition … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Greece Stand Prominent at World Travel Market by GTP editing team 1 December 2003 by GTP editing team 1 December 2003 After last year’s fiasco, the London office of the Hellenic Tourism Organization worked closely with the head office this year. In the end, the office and its staff did a … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Greece’s Tourism Sector Fighting to Survive by GTP editing team 1 December 2003 by GTP editing team 1 December 2003 Greek hoteliers described tourism as being at its lowest ebb in 30 years, “and the government is doing nothing to help,” said Vassilis Miniades, president of the Panhellenic Hoteliers’ Association, … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Hellas Jet Officially in the Air by GTP editing team 1 November 2003 by GTP editing team 1 November 2003 Greece’s newest airline, Hellas Jet, held its first meet last month to officially inaugurate its airline and flights from Athens to Brussels, London, Zurich and Paris as it finally received … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Air France-KLM Deal Just the Beginning by GTP editing team 1 November 2003 by GTP editing team 1 November 2003 Air France’s planned takeover of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, which would create Europe’s largest airline, may just be the beginning of a trend as airline carriers look to ways to … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel SkyTeam Helps Organize Mexican Festival by GTP editing team 1 November 2003 by GTP editing team 1 November 2003 SkyTeam Helps Organize Mexican Festival 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Attica Hoteliers Complain of No Promotion by GTP editing team 1 November 2003 by GTP editing team 1 November 2003 Government and Olympic organizers have failed to properly advertise Athens as an international tourist destination, hoteliers complained during a recent press conference. “They encouraged us to invest heavily in order … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
