More News by elpidoforos Manolesakis Sea Tourism Superfast Group Continues to Increase Revenue by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 Attica Holdings, the holding company for Superfast Ferries, announced last month that its financial results for the nine months to 30th September, 2005, show turnover of 306.5 million euros and earnings before interest and depreciation 89.7 million euros, both up slightly compared with the same period last year. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Sea Tourism Blue Star Ferries Increases Profit 121% by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 Blue Star Maritime S.A. last month announced consolidated net profit after taxes of €19.2 million for the nine months ending 30th September, 2005, against €8.7 million for the same period in 2004, a significant increase of 121%. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Destinations news Greek Village Highlights Benefits of Light Tourism by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 Nymphaion, which not so very long ago was an isolated, abandoned village of 35 elderly inhabitants in northern Greece, has come to life again. The settlement and surrounding area has been transformed into a living museum of national heritage and unspoiled nature, population has tripled. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Destinations news Beijing Travel Show Cites Tourism Explosion by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 China is becoming the world’s largest outbound market with departures of 28.5 million in 2004 and an increase of 9.6%, taking the number up to 15 million, for the first half of 2005. Tourism bodies are keenly monitoring the Chinese outbound market, which is estimated to explode to no less than 100 million travelers by 2020, and with each traveler spending $175 per day. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Initiatives World Heritage Sites Acquire Online Promotion by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 Expedia, the world’s largest online travel agency, last month announced a partnership with the United Nations Foundation to promote travel to World Heritage sites. The move is part of Expedia’s strategy to raise its international profile, provide more customized services and offer original content. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Culture Acropolis Museum Structure Ready by Spring by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 The first phase of the long-awaited Acropolis Museum will be ready by the end of next year, according to the country’s culture ministry. The ministry said that the 20,000-square-meter glass and concrete museum would display sculptures and other finds from the 2,500-year-old Acropolis temples. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail MICE Philoxenia 2005: Gerasimos Fokas, President, Hellenic Chamber of Hotels by GTP editing team 1 November 2005 Cooperation between the private sector and government proved a boon with the successful organization of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. This year’s tourism picture shows that Greece has now entered a new era. The Greek tourism sector had the red carpet of opportunity laid before it and appears to have used it properly. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail MICE Tourism and Development Conference Stresses Cooperation by GTP editing team 1 November 2005 The fourth annual tourism conference organized by the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises welcomed speakers from 10 countries this year. On opening the conference, the association’s president, Stavros Andreadis, said that since the last conference there has been no change in the Greek tourism product, except for Athens. He urged the hundreds of Greek delegates to work toward higher quality products. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Laws, Regulations & Policy Marine Ministry Opens Diving to Tourism Sector by GTP editing team 1 November 2005 After decades of indecision, Greece’s Ministry of Mercantile Marine last month forwarded a bill that not only allows recreational diving but also promotes it. “The new diving bill could position Greece prominently into the world’s scuba diving industry and boost the country’s alternative tourism possibilities,” says the ministry. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Sea Tourism Minoan Narrows Loss by GTP editing team 1 November 2005 Ferry operator Minoan Lines narrowed its first-half loss to 6.2 million euros from 6.7 million euros in the year-earlier period, the company said in a announcement last month. Group revenues rose 4.6 percent to 83.4 million euros, while earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization fell to 18.1 million euros from 18.5 million euros a year ago. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail 1 … 1,185 1,186 1,187 1,188 1,189 … 1,219 Share FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Sea Tourism Superfast Group Continues to Increase Revenue by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 Attica Holdings, the holding company for Superfast Ferries, announced last month that its financial results for the nine months to 30th September, 2005, show turnover of 306.5 million euros and earnings before interest and depreciation 89.7 million euros, both up slightly compared with the same period last year. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Sea Tourism Blue Star Ferries Increases Profit 121% by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 Blue Star Maritime S.A. last month announced consolidated net profit after taxes of €19.2 million for the nine months ending 30th September, 2005, against €8.7 million for the same period in 2004, a significant increase of 121%. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Destinations news Greek Village Highlights Benefits of Light Tourism by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 Nymphaion, which not so very long ago was an isolated, abandoned village of 35 elderly inhabitants in northern Greece, has come to life again. The settlement and surrounding area has been transformed into a living museum of national heritage and unspoiled nature, population has tripled. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Destinations news Beijing Travel Show Cites Tourism Explosion by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 China is becoming the world’s largest outbound market with departures of 28.5 million in 2004 and an increase of 9.6%, taking the number up to 15 million, for the first half of 2005. Tourism bodies are keenly monitoring the Chinese outbound market, which is estimated to explode to no less than 100 million travelers by 2020, and with each traveler spending $175 per day. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Initiatives World Heritage Sites Acquire Online Promotion by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 Expedia, the world’s largest online travel agency, last month announced a partnership with the United Nations Foundation to promote travel to World Heritage sites. The move is part of Expedia’s strategy to raise its international profile, provide more customized services and offer original content. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Culture Acropolis Museum Structure Ready by Spring by GTP editing team 1 December 2005 The first phase of the long-awaited Acropolis Museum will be ready by the end of next year, according to the country’s culture ministry. The ministry said that the 20,000-square-meter glass and concrete museum would display sculptures and other finds from the 2,500-year-old Acropolis temples. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Philoxenia 2005: Gerasimos Fokas, President, Hellenic Chamber of Hotels by GTP editing team 1 November 2005 Cooperation between the private sector and government proved a boon with the successful organization of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. This year’s tourism picture shows that Greece has now entered a new era. The Greek tourism sector had the red carpet of opportunity laid before it and appears to have used it properly. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Tourism and Development Conference Stresses Cooperation by GTP editing team 1 November 2005 The fourth annual tourism conference organized by the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises welcomed speakers from 10 countries this year. On opening the conference, the association’s president, Stavros Andreadis, said that since the last conference there has been no change in the Greek tourism product, except for Athens. He urged the hundreds of Greek delegates to work toward higher quality products. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Laws, Regulations & Policy Marine Ministry Opens Diving to Tourism Sector by GTP editing team 1 November 2005 After decades of indecision, Greece’s Ministry of Mercantile Marine last month forwarded a bill that not only allows recreational diving but also promotes it. “The new diving bill could position Greece prominently into the world’s scuba diving industry and boost the country’s alternative tourism possibilities,” says the ministry. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Sea Tourism Minoan Narrows Loss by GTP editing team 1 November 2005 Ferry operator Minoan Lines narrowed its first-half loss to 6.2 million euros from 6.7 million euros in the year-earlier period, the company said in a announcement last month. Group revenues rose 4.6 percent to 83.4 million euros, while earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization fell to 18.1 million euros from 18.5 million euros a year ago. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail