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Altair Travel Agency, an office with a 30 years of experience in the incoming and outgoing travel market, has recently launched a new B2C website: www.petas.gr—an online system that provides a variety of travel services to the Greek and Cypriot public in the most efficient way.

Greece provides a unique way of life; a way of life that puts forth values that have been tested through time. So it is not surprising that many of those who visit our country are people who have been exposed to these values through their schooling and their studies.

This year’s Philoxenia should prove particularly symbolic for our city. For over 25 years HELEXPO-TIF (Thessaloniki International Fair) has been trying through Philoxenia to highlight the potential of our country as a holiday destination.

At present, tourism is the main pillar of economic development and the creation of job positions. Especially in recent years, there is an apparent shift in public opinion on the recognition of tourism’s importance, mainly because it was understood that by 2020 it could offer the country’s economy so much growth as all other sectors of the economy together.

For the past two years Greece, as a country and a nation, faces the greatest challenges of its modern history.

Greece is changing. Severe and big changes are taking place in the country, which in many cases have resulted to the display of exaggerated images and news about our country that have little to do with reality. Regardless of the images, Greece remains a fantastic tourism spot with very unique features, the same features that have established it as one of the leading tourism destinations worldwide.

The current period is without a doubt characterized by the turbulent and painful process of restructuring the basic structure of the Greek State and the effort to control the most important financial and economic figures and indicators.

Philoxenia has contributed over time to the tourism development of our country and has given impetus to the tourism of Northern Greece. For all of us it is a reference point, an opportunity for the promotion of our tourism offer, a meeting place for professionals. In the most difficult turning point in Greek history, tourism resists the crisis.

The international exhibition of Philoxenia, a meeting point for tourism and entrepreneurship, is conducted in the interim of the Greek financial crisis.

Philoxenia’s leadership in the market of exhibition tourism for decades has been a huge comparative advantage but also a guarantee for exhibitors.

We welcome all tourism professionals that are taking part or just visiting this year’s 27th International Tourism Exhibition Philoxenia in the hospitable city of Thessaloniki, in our beautiful Macedonia.