Event News by elpidoforos Manolesakis UNWTO Optimistic On Greek Tourism by GTP editing team 1 October 2011 “Greece has returned. Greece is making a dynamic comeback and we can confirm this,” UNWTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai said while citing official data during the first International Congress on Ethics and Tourism that took place in Madrid, Spain, 15-16 September. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Cyclades Promoted In Scandinavian Market by GTP editing team 1 September 2011 The Cyclades Development Company has launched a promotion campaign of the Cyclades islands in Norway and other Scandinavian countries, to increase arrivals in 2012, in collaboration with the Hellenic Travel and Trade Center that operates in Oslo, Norway. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Special Olympics 2011 Benefits To Greece Discussed by GTP editing team 1 August 2011 “The Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011 delivered multiple benefits to Greece that included some 300,000 overnight stays, thousands of sea and air travel arrivals and increased tourism traffic,” president of the Special Olympics Organizing Committee Athens 2011, Joanna Despotopoulou, said last month. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail ACB Holds Event To Promote Conference Tourism by GTP editing team 1 August 2011 “The effort to promote Athens in the conference market will only succeed with the full cooperation between the public and private sector with no exceptions,” Rob Davidson from the University of London and Greenwich told the audience at the Athens Convention Bureau’s second “ACB event” that took place late June at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Greek Breakfast To Benefit Hotels by GTP editing team 1 August 2011 Hoteliers who will introduce Greek breakfast through their hotel units would gain significant economic benefits, according to a study conducted by Agropole, a food and agribusiness consulting company, on behalf of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Diving Festival Kicks Off This Month On Kalymnos by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 Kalymnos, the sponge diver’s island in the Dodekanissos complex, will become the meeting point for free diving fans this month. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Spain Targets Greek Market by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 “Last year 148,532 Greek tourists visited Spain and left behind 158 million euros in revenue for the country,” Arturo Claver, the director of new markets of Turespana (Spanish Tourism Organization), said at a media briefing in Athens last month. Mr. Klaver said by 2015 Turespana wants to attract 200,000 Greeks to Spain. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Spa And Wellness Tourism Lag Behind In Greece by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 Greece was called on to follow Cyprus’ example and take advantage of the international opportunities wellness tourism offers at a recent workshop held at the Helexpo Palace in Athens. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Marine Tourism Benefits Analyzed by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 “Greek legislation and bureaucracy kill the cruise market and maritime tourism,” the president of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping, Yiorgos Gratsos, said at a press conference last month, held prior to the 1st Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail PM Outlines New Tourism Measures by GTP editing team 1 June 2011 “We must give tourism a leading role in Greece’s effort for development,” the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises’ (SETE) newly elected president, Andreas Andreadis, said to Prime Minister George Papandreou while assuming his presidency during the association’s 19th General Assembly held last month. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail 1 … 455 456 457 458 459 … 468 Share FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
UNWTO Optimistic On Greek Tourism by GTP editing team 1 October 2011 “Greece has returned. Greece is making a dynamic comeback and we can confirm this,” UNWTO Secretary General Taleb Rifai said while citing official data during the first International Congress on Ethics and Tourism that took place in Madrid, Spain, 15-16 September. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Cyclades Promoted In Scandinavian Market by GTP editing team 1 September 2011 The Cyclades Development Company has launched a promotion campaign of the Cyclades islands in Norway and other Scandinavian countries, to increase arrivals in 2012, in collaboration with the Hellenic Travel and Trade Center that operates in Oslo, Norway. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Special Olympics 2011 Benefits To Greece Discussed by GTP editing team 1 August 2011 “The Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011 delivered multiple benefits to Greece that included some 300,000 overnight stays, thousands of sea and air travel arrivals and increased tourism traffic,” president of the Special Olympics Organizing Committee Athens 2011, Joanna Despotopoulou, said last month. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
ACB Holds Event To Promote Conference Tourism by GTP editing team 1 August 2011 “The effort to promote Athens in the conference market will only succeed with the full cooperation between the public and private sector with no exceptions,” Rob Davidson from the University of London and Greenwich told the audience at the Athens Convention Bureau’s second “ACB event” that took place late June at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Greek Breakfast To Benefit Hotels by GTP editing team 1 August 2011 Hoteliers who will introduce Greek breakfast through their hotel units would gain significant economic benefits, according to a study conducted by Agropole, a food and agribusiness consulting company, on behalf of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Diving Festival Kicks Off This Month On Kalymnos by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 Kalymnos, the sponge diver’s island in the Dodekanissos complex, will become the meeting point for free diving fans this month. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Spain Targets Greek Market by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 “Last year 148,532 Greek tourists visited Spain and left behind 158 million euros in revenue for the country,” Arturo Claver, the director of new markets of Turespana (Spanish Tourism Organization), said at a media briefing in Athens last month. Mr. Klaver said by 2015 Turespana wants to attract 200,000 Greeks to Spain. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Spa And Wellness Tourism Lag Behind In Greece by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 Greece was called on to follow Cyprus’ example and take advantage of the international opportunities wellness tourism offers at a recent workshop held at the Helexpo Palace in Athens. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Marine Tourism Benefits Analyzed by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 “Greek legislation and bureaucracy kill the cruise market and maritime tourism,” the president of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping, Yiorgos Gratsos, said at a press conference last month, held prior to the 1st Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
PM Outlines New Tourism Measures by GTP editing team 1 June 2011 “We must give tourism a leading role in Greece’s effort for development,” the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises’ (SETE) newly elected president, Andreas Andreadis, said to Prime Minister George Papandreou while assuming his presidency during the association’s 19th General Assembly held last month. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
