Destinations news A New Tourism Complex for Peloponnesos by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 Deputy Development Minister Dimitris Georgakopoulos unveiled plans to build a state-of-the-art tourism complex that would include popular alternate forms of tourism such as spa, marine and golf facilities. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Charter for Athens Convention, Exhibitions and Visitors Bureau Signed by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 After two years of efforts, four of the country’s major tourism organizations got together last month to sign the founding charter of the Athens Convention, Exhibitions and Visitors Bureau (Athens … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Development Minister Announces Need for National Tourism Promotional Policy by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos told regional authorities and tourism professionals in Chalkidiki that we needed a national promotional plan for tourism and that we must create a marketing company that … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Tourism Organization Promotes Via Internet by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 The Hellenic Tourism Organization implemented its newest and perhaps most expansive tourism promotional activity recently via the Internet. With the basic aim to inform potential tourists of the country’s tourism … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov New Investment Bill Introduced by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 The Greek finance ministry recently introduced a draft bill on investment incentives. The bill contains five points that are significant for the tourism sector. First, investment subsidies for comprehensive plans … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Hellenic Tourism Properties Heads for Bourse by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 The government will float 25 percent of Hellenic Tourism Properties (ETA) by November as part of its state asset sales agenda to reduce debt, eying proceeds of about 150 million … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Destinations news New Transportation Business Plan Announced by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 Government last month announced the approval of a new “Railway-Airport-Public Transport” business plan worth almost 3 billion euros. The lion’s share of the funds, some 2 billion euros, goes to … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Culture Another Step Back for Acropolis Museum Project by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 by GTP editing team 1 August 2003 The Council of State reportedly said the supreme administrative court has rejected as illegal initial plans for the 94-million-euro glass and concrete New Acropolis Museum project. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Event News S.E. European Tourism Ministers Agree to Unite by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 Tourism ministers from Southeastern Europe met in Athens recently under the initiative of Greece’s development minister, Akis Tsohatzopoulos, to sign a tourism cooperation agreement. This followed close on the heels … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Finally, New Offices for Hellenic Tourism Organization by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 After numerous decades at its offices in downtown Athens on Amerikis Street, the 52-year-old Hellenic Tourism Organization last month moved to bright, new, modern quarters. It now takes up all … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Six New Tourism Promotion Programs Announced by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 The Hellenic Tourism Organization announced six tourism promotional programs worth five million euros where, for the first time, the private sector is invited to participate. Five of the programs, announced … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Culture Dora Stratou Performances Underway by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 In the idyllic surroundings of Philopappou Hill, opposite the Acropolis, in the Dora Stratou garden-theatre, regional cultures come to life during the warm Athenian summer nights. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Korean Air To Purchase 17 New Aircraft by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 Korean Air has signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus and Boeing respectively to purchase a total of 17 aircraft. The deal includes eight A380s from Airbus, and seven B777s, … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Hellas Jet Gets Operator’s License by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 Cyprus Airways subsidiary, Hellas Jet, picked up an air operator’s license for Greece but is still waiting on a commercial license. Although the airline had hoped to begin flights on … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Aegean Celebrates Fourth Anniversary by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 Greece’s number one private carrier, Aegean Airlines, celebrated its fourth anniversary recently and its 9,000,000th passenger. The airline began scheduled flights at the end of May in 1999 with two … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Europe Gets Ready To Fly by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 The European Commission won the right on June 5 to start talks with the United States on airport landing rights, in a move destined to lead to a wholesale shake-up … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Emirates Orders 71 New Passenger Jets by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 International press coverage of a record order of 71 new passenger jets by Emirates centered on the airline’s attempt to rescue the airline industry as it did in 2001 with … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel New Low-cost Carrier from Athens and Thessaloniki by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 Germany’s low-cost carrier “germanwings” now flies out of Athens to Cologne four times a week and out of Thessaloniki three times a week with a ticket price of 19 euros, … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Low Cost Carriers Not Necessarily Cheap by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 A Carlson Wagonlit Travel study showed that potential cost savings on low-cost carriers (LCCs) for large multinationals are, in at least half the cases, just 10% off normal costs. Carlson … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Sea Tourism Another Record Year for Blue Flag Awards by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 by GTP editing team 1 July 2003 Two recent very notable announcements allow Greece to boast as perhaps being the country with the world’s best and cleanest swimming waters in the world. It began last month when … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
