Event News

Exclusive Yachting 2009, the 8th in-water boat exhibition and presentation of yachting and lifestyle products and services will be held this year on 17-22 September at the Alsity Marina in Agios Kosmas.

The first World of Athens roadshow, part of a series of international events of an extensive advertizing campaign for the promotion of Athens, took place at Potters Fields Park in London on 22-25 May.

The Piraeus Prefecture recently held a meeting that focused on tourism and ways to deal with the economic crisis in the areas and islands within its jurisdiction.

The government’s goal is the preservation and support of Greece’s tourism product’s potential and everyone should aim to transform the global crisis into a national opportunity, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis said during the 17th general assembly of the Association for Greek Tourism Enterprises.

The key role of online reservations and strategies for the development of the global tourism industry in the coming years was recently presented to Greek hoteliers at a workshop organized by Xenia Exhibitions-Conferences.

The creation of an Ecomuseum (a museum without walls with natural habitats appearing as exhibition halls) on Rodos as an addition to the island’s tourism product was the main topic discussed recently at the first local conference on the island.

For many years Greece has promoted the classical form of tourism, the so-called “sun and sea,” but alternative forms of tourist interest should be considered as well for areas that visitors may prefer besides the islands, said the secretary general of the Region of Eastern Macedonia-Thrace, Dimitris Stamatis, during a promotional event for the area.

Athens was recently promoted as a destination for events, meetings and incentives to more than 30 countries of Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia by the Athens Convention Bureau (ACB), which participated for the first time at the global Meetings & Incentive Exhibition EIBTM in Barcelona, Spain.

Greek hotels do not take advantage of today’s technology, according to the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises’ Ideas & Action Council (SID) forum held recently titled “Internet Social Media: On-line Travel Communities.”

The prefecture and the Local Authorities Union of Lefkada held a press conference recently where the prospects of tourism development for the island in 2009 were discussed.