Hospitality News

The tourism comeback of Athens-Attica in 2013, after six years of shrinking occupancy rates and revenues, have entrepreneurs considering opportunities for hotel investments in the Greek capital’s city center.

Tourist arrivals and revenue in Athens picked up in 2013 after six years of downward trend, according to data released by the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association.

Greek hotel management company HotelBrain aims for the hotels it operates to make more than 50 million euros in revenue this year, according to the company’s president and founder, Panos Paleologos.

The Hellenic Chamber of Hotels aims for 450 hotels in the country to be serving a genuine Greek breakfast by the end of the year.

Athens moved up a full 14 spots in the ranking of hotel service quality, according a recent survey conducted by holiday booking website Trivago.

Grace Hotels recently announced plans for a new hotel development including residential villas just outside the historic city of Kalamata, in the south western part of the Peloponnese in Greece.

Representatives of 17 of Greece’s leading hotel groups participated in the 1st Business Travel Professionals Forum (BTPF) held recently in Athens and held some 600 meetings with major companies and tourism organizations.

Destination “Athens-Attica” will be promoted to international markets through a series of joint actions based on a protocol of cooperation, signed between the Athens-Attica & Argosaronikos Hotel Association and the Region of Attica.

There is no doubt that the main entrance of the 100% Hotel Show that recently took place in Athens was one of the exhibition’s most impressive features. Visitors were under the impression that they were entering an actual hotel and not an exhibition.

The second phase of the state-subsidized vacation program “Tourism For All” will run from 12 March to 30 June 2014, according to the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO).