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GNTO’s Fragakis Says 2021 Goals Met – Sustainability Ahead

2021-09-22 by Phil Butler

Dimitris Fragakis

GNTO boss Dimitris Fragakis says Greece has achieved its goals set for tourism in 2021.

Tags: 85th Thessaloniki International Fair, Dimitris Fragakis, GNTO, Greece sustainability, Greece tourism, Greece travel, Tourism Ministry

Read This If You Care About the Greece of Tomorrow

2021-08-21 by Phil Butler

Crete shores

If the Greece of tomorrow is to retain the same touristic value it enjoys today, a more sustainable model must be created.

Tags: EplerWood International, Greece, Greece sustainability, Greece tourism, Greece travel, ISTI, Kerten Hospitality, Marloes Knippenberg, Megan Epler Wood, Minoan Group, pandemic, pandemic developments, Sustainable Greece, WTP, WTS

Why Can’t Greek Officials Imagine Tourism Alternatives?

2021-01-02 by Phil Butler

Aravanes and Amari

The tourism situation in Greece calls for new thinking. Meanwhile, Athens decisionmakers are locked into old ways of doing business.

Tags: AirBnb, Amir Benesh, Aravanes Traditional Tavern, Blue Palace in Elounda, budget tourism, cheap travel, crete, Crete vacations, Crete villas, five-star hotels, Greece resorts, Greece sustainability, Greece tourism, Greek hotels, Mykonos, TUI, TUI BLUE Elounda Village, TUI deals

Mitsotakis: “ Greece must not become low-cost investment destination”

2020-11-30 by Phil Butler

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Prime Minister Mitsotakis says “Greece needs to become attractive to investors in five ways, not simply over low labor cost. Now what?

Tags: brain drain, Greece brain drain, Greece sustainability, Greece tourism, Mitsotakis, Pissarides Committee, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Theoharis, tourism industry, Tourism Minister of Greece, Transforming Tourism Initiative, Travel to Greece, V.K. Premium Business Consultants, Visit Greece

Why Ernst & Young and Capital Link Get Greece All “COVID” Wrong

2020-10-02 by Phil Butler

Ernst & Young’s (EY) recent Attractiveness Survey for 2020 revealed Greece as a favorable invesment market. But, not so fast!

Tags: capital flows, Capital Link, COVID-19 Greece, Ernst & Young, Greece, Greece investing, Greece sustainability, sustainable tourism

TUI and Others Seem Determined to Cram Tourists Down the Throats of Greeks

2020-09-21 by Phil Butler

TUI Bundeswehr

TUI announces Greece is the company’s top destination now. Meanwhile, Greece plans to boost tourists in midst of COVID resurgence.

Tags: Aquila Rithymna Beach, COVID-19 measures, Crete tourists, Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH, Dimitris Fragakis, FTI GROUP, FVW, FVW media, FVW Workshop, George Dimas, German media, German tourists, GNTO, Greece sustainability, Greece tourism, Sonar Acoustics Audiovisual, TUI

The GNTO Is Set to Revamp Ionian Islands Tourism Goals

2019-11-01 by Argophilia Travel News

Porto Katsiki

The GNTO says the Ionian Islands are to stand as example destinations for the implementation of sustainable tourism development policies.

Tags: Angela Gerekou, Corfu, GNTO, Greece sustainability, Greece tourism, Greek Isles, Greek tourism, Ionian Islands

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