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RevitUp.direct Snags Awards at the Greek Hospitality Awards 2023

2023-10-24 by Argophilia Travel News

RevitUp.direct awards

RevitUp.direct just took home three top awards at the Greek Hospitality Awards 2023 held at the Athenaeum InterContinental Hotel.

Tags: Athenaeum InterContinental Hotel, Greece Travel Awards, Greek Hospitality Awards 2023, Greek hotels, hotel sales, Revenue Management, RevitUp.direct, sales, travel awards

Three Greek Wellness Spas Shine at the 9th World Spa Awards

2023-10-07 by Manuel Santos

World Spa Awards logo

Greece has been recognized by the judges at the World Spa Awards as among the best spa and wellness experiences.

Tags: Anassa Spa at Santo Pure Oia Suites & Villas, Greek hotels, Greek resorts, Rebecca Cohen, Spa at Amanzoe, top spas, wellness retreats, World Spa Awards, World Spa Awards 2023

Cavo Zoe Seaside Hotel Brings Marketing “A” Game to Cyprus

2022-09-18 by Phil Butler

Cavo Zoe logo

Cyprus’ Cavo Zoe Seaside Hotel ramps up overall marketing, sales, and branding effort to pave the way for island hospitalers.

Tags: Cavo Zoe Seaside Hotel, Cyprus business, Cyprus hospitality, Cyprus hotels, Cyprus stays, Cyprus tours, Cyprus travel, George Motsios, Greek hotels, hotel management, managers, Minas Liapakis, revenue, revenue managers, RevitUP

MTS Globe To Launch Two Five-Star Hotels In Heart of Heraklion

2022-05-24 by Phil Butler

25th August Street

Theodore Milonakis, Managing Director of MTS Globe Greece says the firm will invest 11-12 million euros to launch two five-star hotels.

Tags: city hotels, Crete hotels, Greek hotels, Heraklion hotels, Heraklion news, Luxury Hotels, MTS Globe, Theodore Milonakis

Greece’s Hoteliers Say Tourism Numbers May Reach Half of 2019 Levels

2021-09-08 by Argophilia Travel News

American tourist at Oia village

Hellenic Hoteliers Federation President Grigoris Tasios said this week foreign arrivals to Greece are approaching half of 2019 numbers.

Tags: Greece 2021, Greece tourism, Greece tourists, Greek hotels, Grigoris Tasios, Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, SETE

Accor Expands South Europe Footprint With Mercure Rhodes Alexia

2021-07-23 by Argophilia Travel News

Alexia Premier

Accor opens Mercure Rhodes Alexia, the brand’s first in Greece, expanding the brand’s southeast Europe footprint.

Tags: Accor, Greek hotels, Jerome Lassara, Mercure, Mercure Rhodes Alexia, Niochori Beach, Rhodes hotels

Cretan Malia Park Partners with Maison Flâneur and Design Hotels

2021-04-03 by Argophilia Travel News

The Cretan Malia Park hotel

Cretan Malia Park hotel and Maison Flâneur have teamed up to market homeware and furniture found in Design Hotels worldwide.

Tags: Agapi Sbokou, Costantza Sbokou, Cretan Malia Park, Crete hotels, Greek hotels, hospitality design, hotel design, interior design, Maison Flâneur, Phāea Resorts

Greek Hoteliers and Politicians Launch ACME Rocket PR Campaign

2021-03-19 by Phil Butler

ACME

Greek political and business leadership launches cartoonish tourism PR campaign in the midst of record COVID-19 cases.

Tags: Clean Monday, COVID vaccine, crete, Dimitris Kalaitzidaki, EU, EU COVID response, EU Travel, Greek hoteliers, Greek hotels, Greek SMEs, Harry Theoharis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Open Tourism, public relations, Sputnik V, Sustainable Greece, tourism

NBG Says Greece’s Tourism Sector to Remain Under Strain in 2021

2021-03-07 by Argophilia Travel News

Santorini taverna

The National Bank of Greece (NBG) says the liquidity gap for Greek businesses will be halved this year with tourism remaining under strain.

Tags: Greece economy, Greece recovery, Greece tourism, Greece travel, Greek hotels, NBG, Visit Greece

Look! Greece Has a New Hospitality Brand – Donkey Hotels

2021-02-24 by Argophilia Travel News

donkey hotels and resorts

Athinaion Tourist Enterprises SA and Yes! Hotels Group have announced a merger to create the new Donkey Hotels chain in Greece.

Tags: Athens hotels, Athinaion Tourist Enterprises SA, Donkey Hotels, Greece hotels, Greek hotels, hotel acquisitions, hotel mergers, NEW Hotel, Periscope, Semiramis

Alexandros Vassiliko Says the Pandemic Is a Natural Disaster

2021-02-12 by Phil Butler

Alexandros Vassilikos

The president of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels (HCH), Alexandros Vassilikos, is calling for an injection of capital.

Tags: Alexandros Vassilikos, COVID-19 Greece, Greece hotels, Greek hotels, HCH, Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, hotel industry, SETE, Sustainable Greece, sustainable hotels

Greece Hotels Partner with RES Center for Greener Future

2021-01-28 by Argophilia Travel News

The Hellenic Chamber of Hotels (HCH) and the Center for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (CRES) signed a memorandum of understanding.

Tags: Alexandros Vassilikos, Greek hotels, green hotels, HCH, Lampros Pyrgiotis, RES Technologies, Sustainable Greece, sustainable hotels

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

Survey Shows the Dutch Favor Greece for Her Sunny Beaches and Smiles

2020-11-24 by Argophilia Travel News

A recent survey by Griekenland.net attempts to explain why the Dutch love traveling to Greece so much.

Tags: crete, Crete hotels, Dutch travelers, Greece resorts, Greek beaches, Greek hotels, Griekenland.net, Mythos Palace Resort, Netherlands tourists

Q3 Report Says Greek Hotels Lost Billions to COVID-19 So Far

2020-11-02 by Argophilia Travel News

Porto Palace Hotel Thessaloniki

A new analysis from GBR Consulting reveals that Athens and Thessaloniki hotels lost 79% and 67% of their revenue compared to 2019 numbers.

Tags: Athens hotels, COVID-19 Greece, GBR Consulting, Greece hospitality, Greek economy, Greek hotels, Thessaloniki hotels

Greece’s Small Tourism Accommodations Set to Recieve EU Funds

2020-10-04 by Phil Butler

Adonis Georgiadis

The Greek Confederation of Tourist Accommodation Enterprises (SETKE) says EU funds may be made available by Q1 of 2021.

Tags: Adonis Georgiadis, Cohesion Policy Funds, EPAnEK, EU funds, Greek hotels, Greek SMEs, Panagiotis Tokouzis, SETKE, small hotels

The Greece Tourism Crisis: First Good, Then Bad, Now Worse

2020-09-16 by Phil Butler

Greece’s drive to promote tourism using the status quo, it is not going to work. Everything put forward from the tourism ministry and the rest of the current administration is about going back and appearing to go forward.

Tags: Coronavirus 2019, coronavirus Greece, coronavirus response, COVID-19 measures, crete, Fraport, Greece FDI, Greece SMEs, Greek hotels, Halkidiki, Harry Theoharis, hotel bankruptcy, Ioannis Giorgos, second wave, TUI, TUI Group

30-plus Greek Hotels to Be Auctioned Off in the Coming Weeks

2020-09-16 by Argophilia Travel News

Some 30-plus hotels across Greece are to be auctioned in the next few weeks on acccount of inactivity related to COVID-19.

Tags: bankruptcy filing, COVID-19, Greek economy, Greek hotels, hospitality, hotel industry, hotels

Resilient Business Ecosystems: The Only Vaccine for Travel & Hospitality

2020-08-24 by Phil Butler

COVID alternative

The only way to weather the COVID-19 storm is to be lean, efficient, and flexible in the short and long term.

Tags: COVID-19, Deloitte, Doug Satzman, Greece COVID, Greek hotels, hotel business, hotels, investing, lean business, Liberty International Airport, Magnuson Hotels, pandemic economics, RevitUP, RevPAR, ROAS, Sevi Boutique Hotel, Tom Magnuson, XpresCheck, XpresSpa Group

Hellenic Statistical Authority Reveals Q2 COVID-19 Hospitality Catastrophe

2020-08-19 by Phil Butler

25th August Street

Greece’s accommodation services providers will be devastated by the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

Tags: Crete hotels, ELSTAT, Greece economy, Greece GDP, Greece tourism, Greek hotels, pandemic effects

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