Hospitality News by Pico - Apico Read all the latest developments in the hospitality industry in Greece. Seasonal Hotel Workers Subsidy Program Announced by GTP editing team 1 February 2012 Greek Manpower Employment Organization (OAED) has announced a four-month subsidy program for workers of seasonal hotels, provided they retain their job positions during the period the hotel is closed. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Former Hotel In City Center To Become Student Dorm by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 The former La Mirage hotel that overlooks Omonia Square is to be converted into a student hall of residence, according to a recently announced joint initiative by the Environment Ministry, the City of Athens and the Hellenic Air Force pension fund that owns the premises. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Makedonia Palace Hotel Calls It Quits by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 The Greek tourism sector was shocked and deeply saddened last month when the Daskalantonakis Group announced the permanent closure of the historic Macedonia Palace hotel as of 27 December 2011. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail TUI Sparks Panic With Drachma Warning To Greek Hoteliers by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 “In recent months, one of the reasons we got into this situation was the misinformation and the fact that markets made reckless movements without taking data and results under consideration,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos told US business TV channel CNBC last month. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Alexandra Beach Hotel & Bungalows Hosts 2011 Special Olympic Athletes by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 Alexandra Beach Hotel & Bungalows on Zakynthos was among hotels that hosted Special Olympic athletes for four days during the Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011 held this past summer. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Hoteliers Get Discount On New Property Tax by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 The 35 percent of communal areas of hotels and lodges will be exempt from the new property tax, Economy Minister Evangelos Venizelos said recently. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Athens’ Four-Star Hotels In The Lead In August by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 Bookings in four- and five-star hotels of the Greek capital in August recorded a slight increase of 1.13 percent over the same month last year, according to data released recently by the Athens-Attica Hotel Association. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Creta Maris Goes All-Inclusive, Returns to Local Gastronomy by GTP editing team 1 October 2011 The Creta Maris Group of Hotels recently presented an ambitious promotion plan for Crete that includes all-inclusive services combined with the Cretan way of life, the local agricultural production and the island’s culture. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Campsites To Be Classified With Star Rating System by GTP editing team 1 October 2011 Organized campsites in Greece will now be ranked according to a star-rating system, from one star to five stars, based on mandatory technical and functional specifications and ratings criteria, according to a Council of State decision that approved a relevant draft presidential decree. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Athens’ Bookings Satisfactory Despite Disruptions by GTP editing team 1 October 2011 “The winter season is expected to be extremely difficult, not only for Athens but for all Greek destinations that operate year round,” Yiannis Retsos, president of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association, said last month in regards to the Greek capital’s summer bookings. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail 1 … 327 328 329 330 331 … 355 Share FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Seasonal Hotel Workers Subsidy Program Announced by GTP editing team 1 February 2012 Greek Manpower Employment Organization (OAED) has announced a four-month subsidy program for workers of seasonal hotels, provided they retain their job positions during the period the hotel is closed. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Former Hotel In City Center To Become Student Dorm by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 The former La Mirage hotel that overlooks Omonia Square is to be converted into a student hall of residence, according to a recently announced joint initiative by the Environment Ministry, the City of Athens and the Hellenic Air Force pension fund that owns the premises. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Makedonia Palace Hotel Calls It Quits by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 The Greek tourism sector was shocked and deeply saddened last month when the Daskalantonakis Group announced the permanent closure of the historic Macedonia Palace hotel as of 27 December 2011. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
TUI Sparks Panic With Drachma Warning To Greek Hoteliers by GTP editing team 1 December 2011 “In recent months, one of the reasons we got into this situation was the misinformation and the fact that markets made reckless movements without taking data and results under consideration,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos told US business TV channel CNBC last month. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Alexandra Beach Hotel & Bungalows Hosts 2011 Special Olympic Athletes by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 Alexandra Beach Hotel & Bungalows on Zakynthos was among hotels that hosted Special Olympic athletes for four days during the Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011 held this past summer. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hoteliers Get Discount On New Property Tax by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 The 35 percent of communal areas of hotels and lodges will be exempt from the new property tax, Economy Minister Evangelos Venizelos said recently. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Athens’ Four-Star Hotels In The Lead In August by GTP editing team 1 November 2011 Bookings in four- and five-star hotels of the Greek capital in August recorded a slight increase of 1.13 percent over the same month last year, according to data released recently by the Athens-Attica Hotel Association. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Creta Maris Goes All-Inclusive, Returns to Local Gastronomy by GTP editing team 1 October 2011 The Creta Maris Group of Hotels recently presented an ambitious promotion plan for Crete that includes all-inclusive services combined with the Cretan way of life, the local agricultural production and the island’s culture. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Campsites To Be Classified With Star Rating System by GTP editing team 1 October 2011 Organized campsites in Greece will now be ranked according to a star-rating system, from one star to five stars, based on mandatory technical and functional specifications and ratings criteria, according to a Council of State decision that approved a relevant draft presidential decree. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Athens’ Bookings Satisfactory Despite Disruptions by GTP editing team 1 October 2011 “The winter season is expected to be extremely difficult, not only for Athens but for all Greek destinations that operate year round,” Yiannis Retsos, president of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association, said last month in regards to the Greek capital’s summer bookings. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
