Trade Associations by elpidoforos Manolesakis Greek Breakfast At 7th HORECA by GTP editing team 1 February 2012 The Hellenic Chamber of Hotels will present the “Greek Breakfast” initiative this month at the 7th International Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe Show HO.RE.CA., to take place 4-7 February at the Athens Metropolitan Expo in Spata. The event will be held in cooperation with the Hellenic Chef’s Association. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Athens’ Hoteliers Call For Immediate Attention Of City Center Image by GTP editing team 1 February 2012 “The hotels in Athens are collapsing,” was the comment of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association in a recent announcement in regards to the city’s hotel performance for the month of November 2011. Αccording to data from the association, the average hotel occupancy in Athens-Attica dropped by 23.63 percent last November. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Greek Restaurants In The U.S. To Promote Tourism by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 Greek tourism will be promoted via 4,500 restaurants in the United States based on an initiative to be carried out by the “Alliance for Greece”* group, Deputy Culture and Tourism … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Tour Bus Profession Opens, KTEL Bus Profession Stays Closed by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos sparked an angry reaction from tourism professionals recently when he signed a ministerial decision in November, which liberalized the tour bus profession so licenses would be easier obtained while the profession of KTEL intercity buses remains “closed.” 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Greek Museums And Sites Get New Standards by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 “Our goal is for all monuments to provide the basic services to the visitor,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos said while reviewing the progress of the ministry’s three-year plan to upgrade services of archaeological sites and museums. The program was launched in December 2010. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail HATTA Calls Meeting To Improve Downtown Athens Image by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 The Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agencies (HATTA) called a sudden meeting last month to focus on the image of downtown Athens and discuss the negative impact of the city’s tourism. The purpose of the meeting was to examine interventions to improve the image of the city through initiatives that would be undertaken by institutional bodies and tourism professionals. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail HAPCO Urges Government To Pay More Attention To Conference Tourism by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 “The socio-political events and the effects of the economic crisis that has plagued our country and its citizens, has transformed Greece into an undesirable destination that frightens organizers, sponsors and conference delegates and presents Greek professionals as unreliable and insolvent,” Hellenic Association of Professional Congress Organizers (HAPCO) President Dinos Astras stressed last month during his opening speech at the association’s 7th Pan-Hellenic Conference. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Athens’ Tourism Continues To Decline by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 “With the current bipartisan composition of the Culture and Tourism Ministry, we will not understand, justify, explain, accept or even tolerate the possibility of failure to implement concrete promises, commitments and agreed procedures towards a common direction,” Yiannis Retsos, president of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association said in late November 2011 during the association’s 42nd Annual General Assembly. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Hotel Chamber Blasts New Property Tax At First General Assembly by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 “We were considered a heavy industry until the State decided to proceed with the collection of property tax through electricity,” President of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels Yiorgos Tsakiris said during the chamber’s first ever general meeting hosted at the Metropolitan Expo Center in Athens. The general meeting was organized on the sidelines of the Xenia hospitality equipment trade fair, held 25-28 November 2011. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail SETE Releases “Must Do” List For Tourism-Related Ministers by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 President of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE), Andreas Andreadis, appeared quite outspoken last month and received a round of applause from the audience on the first day of HAPCO’s 7th Pan-Hellenic Conference, held at Aegli Zappeion in Athens on 8 December 2011. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail 1 … 530 531 532 533 534 … 601 Share FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Greek Breakfast At 7th HORECA by GTP editing team 1 February 2012 The Hellenic Chamber of Hotels will present the “Greek Breakfast” initiative this month at the 7th International Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe Show HO.RE.CA., to take place 4-7 February at the Athens Metropolitan Expo in Spata. The event will be held in cooperation with the Hellenic Chef’s Association. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Athens’ Hoteliers Call For Immediate Attention Of City Center Image by GTP editing team 1 February 2012 “The hotels in Athens are collapsing,” was the comment of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association in a recent announcement in regards to the city’s hotel performance for the month of November 2011. Αccording to data from the association, the average hotel occupancy in Athens-Attica dropped by 23.63 percent last November. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Greek Restaurants In The U.S. To Promote Tourism by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 Greek tourism will be promoted via 4,500 restaurants in the United States based on an initiative to be carried out by the “Alliance for Greece”* group, Deputy Culture and Tourism … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Tour Bus Profession Opens, KTEL Bus Profession Stays Closed by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos sparked an angry reaction from tourism professionals recently when he signed a ministerial decision in November, which liberalized the tour bus profession so licenses would be easier obtained while the profession of KTEL intercity buses remains “closed.” 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Greek Museums And Sites Get New Standards by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 “Our goal is for all monuments to provide the basic services to the visitor,” Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Yeroulanos said while reviewing the progress of the ministry’s three-year plan to upgrade services of archaeological sites and museums. The program was launched in December 2010. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
HATTA Calls Meeting To Improve Downtown Athens Image by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 The Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourist Agencies (HATTA) called a sudden meeting last month to focus on the image of downtown Athens and discuss the negative impact of the city’s tourism. The purpose of the meeting was to examine interventions to improve the image of the city through initiatives that would be undertaken by institutional bodies and tourism professionals. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
HAPCO Urges Government To Pay More Attention To Conference Tourism by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 “The socio-political events and the effects of the economic crisis that has plagued our country and its citizens, has transformed Greece into an undesirable destination that frightens organizers, sponsors and conference delegates and presents Greek professionals as unreliable and insolvent,” Hellenic Association of Professional Congress Organizers (HAPCO) President Dinos Astras stressed last month during his opening speech at the association’s 7th Pan-Hellenic Conference. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Athens’ Tourism Continues To Decline by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 “With the current bipartisan composition of the Culture and Tourism Ministry, we will not understand, justify, explain, accept or even tolerate the possibility of failure to implement concrete promises, commitments and agreed procedures towards a common direction,” Yiannis Retsos, president of the Athens-Attica Hotel Association said in late November 2011 during the association’s 42nd Annual General Assembly. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Hotel Chamber Blasts New Property Tax At First General Assembly by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 “We were considered a heavy industry until the State decided to proceed with the collection of property tax through electricity,” President of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels Yiorgos Tsakiris said during the chamber’s first ever general meeting hosted at the Metropolitan Expo Center in Athens. The general meeting was organized on the sidelines of the Xenia hospitality equipment trade fair, held 25-28 November 2011. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
SETE Releases “Must Do” List For Tourism-Related Ministers by GTP editing team 1 January 2012 President of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE), Andreas Andreadis, appeared quite outspoken last month and received a round of applause from the audience on the first day of HAPCO’s 7th Pan-Hellenic Conference, held at Aegli Zappeion in Athens on 8 December 2011. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
