Social Responsibility Clean Greek Coastline Cost 18.7 Billion Drachmas by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 Kostas Laliotis, environment and public works minister, announced the completion of a 7-year cleanup program for Greek coastlines that cost some 18.7 billion drachmas. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality International Advisor To Apply Greek Hotel Star System by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 by GTP editing team 1 August 2001 The long awaited star system for Greek hotels may finally get off the ground later this year. The Hellenic Tourism Organization has called for an international advisor to assist in … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Culture A Four-year Cultural Plan Announced by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 Greece’s cultural ministry recently announced four-year cultural activity plan in view of 2004 Athens Olympics. The project is called the Cultural Olympiad and will include large-scale events. The cultural ministry … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Sea Tourism Plan For The Reorganization And Upgrading Of Greek Marinas by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 State-run marinas in Attica and Thessaloniki will be reorganized and upgraded to the high standards seen elsewhere in Europe, Development Minister Nikos Christodoulakis announced recently. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Greece Upgrades Tourism Facilities by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 The Hellenic Tourism Organization says that infrastructure improvements, mainly the expansion of island airports, have contributed to the increase in tourist arrivals. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Greek Tourist Enterprises Enters New Phase by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 After sitting quietly since its inception some two years ago, the holding company formed to manage the Hellenic Tourism Organization’s extensive list of properties seems ready to enter a new … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Trade Associations - Gov Major State Investment Program For Tourism by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 by GTP editing team 1 October 2000 Athens could soon acquire a theme park, an aquarium, a marine research park and more marinas as part of a major two-year investment project by the Hellenic Tourism Organization’s new … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
