Trade Associations by elpidoforos Manolesakis New Hotel Chamber President Promises Modernization by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 A trip into the downtown offices of the Greek Hotel Chamber does not leave one impressed with its civil-servant-type organization. The chamber’s newly elected president, Makis Fokas, however, says he intends to change this. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Grave Concern For 2003 Tourism Industry by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 Members of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises expressed grave concern for Greece’s tourism industry this year. The association’s president, Stavros Andreadis, said that after last year’s drop of about 5% in overall arrivals, coupled with international events, this year will be one requiring critical decisions by both the private and public sector. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Bids Called For The Sale Of Galileo Hellas by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 Greece’s transport ministry announced a tender for the sale of a majority stake in Galileo Hellas. Tenders were to be accepted up until January 17. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Flisvos Marina Leased To Lamda by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 State-owned Hellenic Tourism Properties last month signed a concession agreement that grants operation rights for the Flisvos Marina facility on the Athens coast to the Lamda Technol consortium. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Greece Suggests Balkans Form Tourism Committee by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos proposes that the Balkan countries create a tourism committee in an effort to better cooperate in overcoming the handicap of being single destinations. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Last Call For Tender To Construct Conference Center by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 The four short-listed consortiums in the tender for construction and operation for 50 years of the planned conference center in Athens’s old airport installations at Hellenikon have been invited to submit their final technical and financial bids to state-owned Hellenic Tourism Properties before January 14. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Convention Bureau Top Priority For New Attica Hoteliers’ Association Board by GTP editing team 1 January 2003 A convention and visitors bureau for Athens, that’s the top priority for the new board of directors of the Attica Hoteliers’ Association. Already, the board has the support of the Attica Regional Authority. The next step is to convince travel-related associations in the region to cooperate. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail WATA Delegates First To Know by GTP editing team 1 January 2003 Delegates to the recent World Association of Travel Agents annual general assembly here in Athens (November 28 to December 1) felt privileged to be the first to hear how 2004 Games’ tickets will be distributed. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Tourism Organization Signs Deal With Visa by GTP editing team 1 January 2003 The Hellenic Tourism Organization and the Visa credit card company have announced an agreement for a mutual promotion project within the framework of the 2004 Olympic Games. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail Greece EU Presidency Features Open Skies Policy by GTP editing team 1 January 2003 When Greece assumes the European Union presidency on January 1, for a six-month period, its transportation brief will include a member states’ agreement to award the European Commission a wide-ranging mandate to negotiate a bilateral USA-EU “open skies” agreement. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail 1 … 590 591 592 593 594 … 601 Share FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
New Hotel Chamber President Promises Modernization by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 A trip into the downtown offices of the Greek Hotel Chamber does not leave one impressed with its civil-servant-type organization. The chamber’s newly elected president, Makis Fokas, however, says he intends to change this. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Grave Concern For 2003 Tourism Industry by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 Members of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises expressed grave concern for Greece’s tourism industry this year. The association’s president, Stavros Andreadis, said that after last year’s drop of about 5% in overall arrivals, coupled with international events, this year will be one requiring critical decisions by both the private and public sector. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Bids Called For The Sale Of Galileo Hellas by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 Greece’s transport ministry announced a tender for the sale of a majority stake in Galileo Hellas. Tenders were to be accepted up until January 17. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Flisvos Marina Leased To Lamda by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 State-owned Hellenic Tourism Properties last month signed a concession agreement that grants operation rights for the Flisvos Marina facility on the Athens coast to the Lamda Technol consortium. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Greece Suggests Balkans Form Tourism Committee by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 Development Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos proposes that the Balkan countries create a tourism committee in an effort to better cooperate in overcoming the handicap of being single destinations. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Last Call For Tender To Construct Conference Center by GTP editing team 1 February 2003 The four short-listed consortiums in the tender for construction and operation for 50 years of the planned conference center in Athens’s old airport installations at Hellenikon have been invited to submit their final technical and financial bids to state-owned Hellenic Tourism Properties before January 14. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Convention Bureau Top Priority For New Attica Hoteliers’ Association Board by GTP editing team 1 January 2003 A convention and visitors bureau for Athens, that’s the top priority for the new board of directors of the Attica Hoteliers’ Association. Already, the board has the support of the Attica Regional Authority. The next step is to convince travel-related associations in the region to cooperate. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
WATA Delegates First To Know by GTP editing team 1 January 2003 Delegates to the recent World Association of Travel Agents annual general assembly here in Athens (November 28 to December 1) felt privileged to be the first to hear how 2004 Games’ tickets will be distributed. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Tourism Organization Signs Deal With Visa by GTP editing team 1 January 2003 The Hellenic Tourism Organization and the Visa credit card company have announced an agreement for a mutual promotion project within the framework of the 2004 Olympic Games. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Greece EU Presidency Features Open Skies Policy by GTP editing team 1 January 2003 When Greece assumes the European Union presidency on January 1, for a six-month period, its transportation brief will include a member states’ agreement to award the European Commission a wide-ranging mandate to negotiate a bilateral USA-EU “open skies” agreement. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
