Company updates Minoan Lines Sticks To Fleet Renewal Program by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 The construction of eight modern vessels is proceeding without any delays, said Crete-based ferry operator Minoan Lines last month after press reports implied the company was in financial difficulties. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Athens Airport Defends Pricing Policies by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 The Athens Skal Club called on top-level executives from the new Athens international airport to join members for the monthly luncheon and explain why the airport charges are so high. … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel New Offers For Olympic Airways by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 Axon Airlines SA, Golden Aviation Services (the Restis shipping group), Integrated Airline Solutions and Cyprus Airways deposited new bids for the purchase of national carrier Olympic Airways. As we go … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Laws, Regulations & Policy Travel Agents Blame Government For Tourism Arrival Decrease by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 by GTP editing team 1 July 2001 Because government employees can not do their job properly and because government is unable or unwilling to give the proper incentive or education to rectify the matter, Greece loses billions … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE ABTA Congress Explored Internet Positives And Negatives by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 The Association of British Travel Agent’s (ABTA) recent congress on Kos gave delegates some tasty food for thought. During the four-day event, which was perhaps the best-organized event ever held … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Destinations news Athens No Longer Considered A Saturated Area For New Hotel Units by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 Some 20 new hotels with a total capacity of some 5.000 beds and costing an estimated 100 billion drachmas are expected to be built in Attica over the years leading … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Travel Operators Aktina Leads The Way by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 Just a few years after it was first founded in 1975, Piraeus-based Aktina has lead the way for other Greek travel agencies. The office became an IATA member in 1977 … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Laws, Regulations & Policy First Steps Taken In Coastal Shipping Deregulation by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 Greek Merchant Marine Minister Christos Papoutsis last month took the first major step for the deregulation of the domestic passenger-shipping sector. With the issuance of new exploitation permits for island … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Olympic Airways Speeds Up Privatization And Gets Funds For Spata Move by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 Olympic Airways will relocate to the new airport at Spata come March next year following approval from the European Commission for the diversion of funds intended for plane purchases. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Greece Lacks Long-term Tourism Strategy And Policy by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 The biggest problem facing Greek tourism is the lack of a long-term strategy and policy, said Spyros Kokotos, president of the Association of Greek Tourist Enterprises, during the 16th Philoxenia … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Travel Operators Exclusive Tours Promotes Norwegian Dream by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 Nikos and Kostas Pagonis of Athens-based Exclusive Tours last month took local travel agents on a tour of Norwegian Cruise Lines’ cruise vessel Norwegian Dream, which had docked in Piraeus … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Sea Tourism A ‘BSP-like’ System Created For Ferry Lines by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 Piraeus-based CTS (Coastal Transportation Services), which is a member of the a Piraeus Bank Group, will soon provide a complete pioneering system for the settlement of sales through agents in … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Philoxenia’s Last Stand by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 by GTP editing team 1 December 2000 During opening ceremonies, Development Minister Nikos Christodoulakis declared that a total of 596.2 billion drachmas in financing from the EU’s Third Structural Fund would be funnelled into the industry between … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Recruitments Venizelos New Culture Minister by GTP editing team 20 November 2000 by GTP editing team 20 November 2000 Evangelos Venizelos is the country’s new culture minister. Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis replaced Culture Minster Theodoros Pangalos on November 19, the same day as a front-page interview by the … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Thessaloniki Hotels Half Full, But More Needed by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 On the average, hotels in Greece’s northern capital, Thessaloniki, during the first eight months of this year posted a occupancy rate of 52%. Hoteliers say they are hardly satisfied with … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Candia Maris Presents Its Green Team by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 The Candia Maris on Crete, the first hotel in Greece and the third in the Mediterranean (and among only 100 units internationally) to possess the coveted ISO 14001 environmental management … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Porto Rio Renews Image by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 Patra’s Porto Rio Hotel celebrated its rejuvenation last month. Owners spent some two billion drachmas to give the unit a complete new image, not just a facelift. The only thing … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Olympic’s Fares Increase By As Much As 54% by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 Recent increases in the price of petrol pushed the world’s airlines into 10-15% increases in winter fares, but Olympic Airways seems to have gotten carried away and increased at least … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel New Athens Airport Turned Over To Management Company by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 Athens’s new Eleftherios Venizelos airport at Spata, 13 kilometers out of the capital, last month was handed over by the Hochtief-led consortium that built it in just over four years … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Tourist Enterprises Get EU Funding For Modernization by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 by GTP editing team 1 November 2000 A total of 596.5 billion drachmas will be absorbed by the Greek tourism sector over the next five years with help from the Third EU Structural Fund and corresponding private … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
