Trade Associations - Gov First Batch Of Promotional Funds Handed Over To EOT by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 Hellenic Tourism Properties handed over some two billion drachmas to the Hellenic Tourism Organization (EOT) recently as the first payment for the organization’s tourism advertising campaigns abroad, which covers the … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Hellenic Tourism Properties Heads For Bourse by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 Along with the privatization of its casinos, Hellenic Tourism Properties will privatize itself. The first step was taken last month with the sale of convertible privatization bonds, or pre-stock (prometoxa), … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov SETE Questions Government’s Tourism Data And Methods by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 A delegation from the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) met with Prime Minister Costas Simitis last month, at his request, where the tourism professionals expressed their belief that the … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Recruitments Airline Specialist Takes Over Tourism General Secretariat by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 Demetris Georgarakis, an electronic engineer with some 20 years experience in the airline sector (Olympic Airways) has been appointed to head the newly created tourism general secretariat, which is directly … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE New Economy Conference Held While Cruising by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 While sailing to the islands of Aegina and Hydra, delegates attending a conference on the new economy were told computers will never acquire common sense; therefore, humans will always be … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Destinations news Lefkas Inaugurates New Marina by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 A marina complex worth 9.35 billion drachmas built on the Ionian island of Lefkas began operation last month. The marina, which can berth up to 500 yachts, includes some 72 … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Silver Star Opens Athens Office by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 Thessaloniki-based Silver Star Holidays opened a branch office in Athens recently. Like the head office, it deals only directly with travel agents with tour packages to Malta, Turkey and Syria. … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Rodos Palace Completes Elaborate Renovations by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 Elaborate renovations of Rodos Palace Resort Hotel were successfully completed recently after two years of design and intensive construction work. The project cost owners some 3.5 billion drachmas. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Rodos Golf Course Up For Long-term Lease by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 Owner of the Afantou Golf course on Rodos, Hellenic Tourism Properties, says it has completed studies for the development of the course and that before the beginning of August it … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Rodian Beach To Begin Third Investment Phase by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 The Rodian Beach Resort on Rodos, the ex-Rodos Bay, late this fall begins phase three of its renovation and expansion program with new luxury rooms, another large pool, a gym … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Heronia Inaugurates Thessaloniki Branch by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 Helen Trentzos has come a long way since she left her job in a Piraeus shipping company, and as a sharp looking young woman opened a travel office in the … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Tourism Continues To Outperform All Other Sectors by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 Travel and tourism is expected to generate 207 million jobs worldwide in 2001 with 53 million potential new jobs by 2011, probably outperforming all other economic sectors during this period, … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Laws, Regulations & Policy Coastal Shipping Companies Unhappy With New Legislation by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 Greece’s coastal shipping companies say new legislation that aims to liberalize the sector and open Greek routes to competition counters free enterprise and allows for greater state intervention. They even … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Greece’s SkyTeam Leaders Inform Travel Trade by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 SkyTeam, the global airline alliance founded by Aeromexico, Air France, Delta Air Lines and Korean Air, as well as its newest member, CSA Czech Airlines, held a major bash at … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Destinations news Offers In For Attica Beach Properties by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 Hellenic Tourism Properties called on the three consortiums that had bid for 10-year concession contracts for five state-run Athens beaches to improve their offers, both in the line of the … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Sea Tourism Blue Flag Program Gets Private Sponsor by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 Two major developments this year places Greece’s Blue Flag program on a much higher level than ever before. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Greek Hotels Look To International Management by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 With the recent agreement between the Chandris hotel group and the French hotel group Accor, whereby Accor takes over the management of the Chandris group, the Greek capital’s major hotels … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Philoxenia 2001 To Host International Congress by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 This year’s tourism exhibition Philoxenia 2001, November 1 to 4, will host an international conference on Ecotourism entitled: “The International Experience and the Case of Greece.” 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Happenings Hoteliers Agree To Bookings For 2004 Games by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 After promises by government quarters to hold off on any new hotels other than those already approved or being approved (4,500 rooms), the Athens Hoteliers Association agreed to book another … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Another Name Change For Flying Dolphins by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 In its heyday it was called Ceres Flying Dolphins, when purchased by Minoan it was Minoan Flying Dolphins, now that the tables have turned downward, the name of Greece’s biggest … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
