More News by elpidoforos Manolesakis Sea Tourism Superfast And Costa Crociere Alliance by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 Attica Enterprises, the holding company for Superfast Ferries, and cruise company Costa Crociere, owned by Carnival Cruise Lines, signed signed a letter of intent to create two joint ventures in cruise and ferry operations. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Laws, Regulations & Policy New Coastal Shipping Routes by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 Merchant Marine Minister Giorgos Anomeritis last month presented a new draft bill for coastal shipping. It includes a schedule of shipping routes that cover the whole country and one that is binding for passenger shipping firms. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Company updates Blue Star Paros Launched by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 The first of two new ultra modern ferry vessels for the Cyclades routes slid gently into the waters outside of the Daewoo Shipyards in Korea last month. Christened Blue Star Paros, the first vessel now undergoes its inside dressing stage with some of the most luxurious furnishings to be found on ferries sailing Greek waters. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail MICE Tourism Industry Takes Action At World Tourism Market To End Crisis by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 Greece’s tourism heads were optimistic after their contacts with UK’s most important tour operators during the International World Tourism Market in London last month. General Tourism Secretary Dimitrios Georgarakis and Hellenic Tourism Organization President Evgenios Yiannakopoulos said everything looked very positive for a good tourism period next year. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Sea Tourism FerryScreen System for ferries by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 FerryScreen, a reservations and online ticketing system for coastal shipping companies that’s owned by Analysis SA says it issued more than one million coastal lines’ tickets for Anek and Blue Star Ferries this year and by the end of 2001 the number will exceed 1,250,000. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail MICE Europe Still The World’s Convention Continent by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 Congress and convention specialist, Wolfram D. Svoboda, the head of marketing at the International Congress Center Berlin, said he’s very optimistic on the future of congresses as people always will have the demand for personal contacts and personal exchange of thoughts. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail MICE Optimistic Atmosphere At Philoxenia 2001 by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 Official reaction to Greece’s tourism sector, in light of the September 11 events, was more than optimistic during this year’s Philoxenia travel fair held last month in Thessaloniki. The country’s new development minister, Akis Tsohatzopoulos, did more than his part by attending almost every side event related to the trade with his usual effervescent personality. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Initiatives World Tourism Bodies Announce Joint Statement On Industry by GTP editing team 11 November 2001 Leading travel and tourism industry associations from around the world have collaborated on a joint statement asking governments to work together in partnership to address concerns facing the global travel and tourism industry. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Hospitality Conference Cancellations Continue by GTP editing team 1 November 2001 One after another, conferences scheduled for the fall in Athens are being canceled along with the corresponding hotel bookings that go with them. There is no indication that they are simply being postponed. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Destinations news Development Of Greek Ports Crucial For 2004 by GTP editing team 1 November 2001 The 2004 Olympiad provides the greatest opportunity for the reformation and development of Piraeus, said Antonis Nikolopoulos, of Kantor Management Consultants, at the recent international conference EuroMare 2001. Piraeus Port … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail 1 … 1,205 1,206 1,207 1,208 1,209 … 1,219 Share FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Sea Tourism Superfast And Costa Crociere Alliance by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 Attica Enterprises, the holding company for Superfast Ferries, and cruise company Costa Crociere, owned by Carnival Cruise Lines, signed signed a letter of intent to create two joint ventures in cruise and ferry operations. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Laws, Regulations & Policy New Coastal Shipping Routes by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 Merchant Marine Minister Giorgos Anomeritis last month presented a new draft bill for coastal shipping. It includes a schedule of shipping routes that cover the whole country and one that is binding for passenger shipping firms. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Company updates Blue Star Paros Launched by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 The first of two new ultra modern ferry vessels for the Cyclades routes slid gently into the waters outside of the Daewoo Shipyards in Korea last month. Christened Blue Star Paros, the first vessel now undergoes its inside dressing stage with some of the most luxurious furnishings to be found on ferries sailing Greek waters. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Tourism Industry Takes Action At World Tourism Market To End Crisis by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 Greece’s tourism heads were optimistic after their contacts with UK’s most important tour operators during the International World Tourism Market in London last month. General Tourism Secretary Dimitrios Georgarakis and Hellenic Tourism Organization President Evgenios Yiannakopoulos said everything looked very positive for a good tourism period next year. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Sea Tourism FerryScreen System for ferries by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 FerryScreen, a reservations and online ticketing system for coastal shipping companies that’s owned by Analysis SA says it issued more than one million coastal lines’ tickets for Anek and Blue Star Ferries this year and by the end of 2001 the number will exceed 1,250,000. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Europe Still The World’s Convention Continent by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 Congress and convention specialist, Wolfram D. Svoboda, the head of marketing at the International Congress Center Berlin, said he’s very optimistic on the future of congresses as people always will have the demand for personal contacts and personal exchange of thoughts. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
MICE Optimistic Atmosphere At Philoxenia 2001 by GTP editing team 1 December 2001 Official reaction to Greece’s tourism sector, in light of the September 11 events, was more than optimistic during this year’s Philoxenia travel fair held last month in Thessaloniki. The country’s new development minister, Akis Tsohatzopoulos, did more than his part by attending almost every side event related to the trade with his usual effervescent personality. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Initiatives World Tourism Bodies Announce Joint Statement On Industry by GTP editing team 11 November 2001 Leading travel and tourism industry associations from around the world have collaborated on a joint statement asking governments to work together in partnership to address concerns facing the global travel and tourism industry. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hospitality Conference Cancellations Continue by GTP editing team 1 November 2001 One after another, conferences scheduled for the fall in Athens are being canceled along with the corresponding hotel bookings that go with them. There is no indication that they are simply being postponed. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Destinations news Development Of Greek Ports Crucial For 2004 by GTP editing team 1 November 2001 The 2004 Olympiad provides the greatest opportunity for the reformation and development of Piraeus, said Antonis Nikolopoulos, of Kantor Management Consultants, at the recent international conference EuroMare 2001. Piraeus Port … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
