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Is the 2019 Crete Tourism Season a 112 Booking Emergency?

2019-07-08 by Phil Butler

Kissamos

A report on the state of the Crete hospitality market which will show key flaws in the strategies in place to serve this tourism destination.

Tags: crete, Crete hotels, Crete resorts, dynamic packaging, EyeWide Digital Marketing Agency, Greek hotels, hotel marketing, hotels, Minas Liapakis, thomas cook, travel package, TUI, TUI Group

Greek Ministers Join Russian Cosmonauts Inaugurating Heraklion’s Yuri Gagarin Park

2019-04-14 by Phil Butler

Yuri Gagarin Park

Greece’s Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura and Crete’s Governor Stavros Arnaoutakis, joined four of Russia’s most distinguished cosmonauts to inaugurate Yuri Gagarin Park.

Tags: cosmonauts, crete, Elena Kountoura, Governor Stavros Arnaoutakis, Heraklion, Karavola Fountain, Mayor Vassilis Labrino, Mikhail Potapov, Minas Liapakis, Russia Greece relations, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Thanasis Avgerinos, Theodoros Yurtsichin-Grammatikopoulo, Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Gagarin Park

East Crete Region Hosts “Modern Trends in the Tourist Market”

2018-12-11 by Argophilia Travel News

EyeWide Digital's Minas Liapakis in Agios Nikolaos

The Economic Chamber of Greece Regional Department of Eastern Crete hosted an event, “Modern Trends in the Tourist Market,” which focused on suggested strategies for the upcoming touristic season.

Tags: Agios Nikolaos hotels, Anthi Christinou, crete, Crete coutrism, Elounda S.A., EyeWide Digital Marketing, Fotis Kokotos, Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, hotel marketing, hotels marketing, Lassithi, Minas Liapakis, tourism

A Prescription for Recovering from Our Marketing Disease

2018-11-29 by Phil Butler

Soap sales

Digital communications has for too long been reclassified as only a function of marketing. Public relations communicators should have been in the lead all along.

Tags: Brian Solis, Dave Senay, digital marketing, earned media, Edelman PR, Epoch Times, EyeWide, EyeWide Digital Marketing, FH, Fleischman Hillard, Future Works, marketing, Martin Soler, media, Minas Liapakis, PR, public relations, RADAR, Richard Edelman, WIHP

Diver’s Club Crete: An American in Paradise Part I

2018-07-02 by Phil Butler

Diver's Club Crete

A few minutes from Crete’s capital in Heraklion there’s a great place for the vacationer to become a real adventurer, and to practice a laid back and luxurious island life at the same time. My staff at Argophilia and a group of old friends got to sample this dynamic of the island while visiting the quaint village of Agia Pelagia recently. So, for those interested in unique experiences on Crete, here’s a short story on cooling it on Greece’s biggest island.

Tags: Agia Pelagia, Almyra, Almyra Seaside Food & Cocktails, Dimitris Drakos, Diver's Club Crete, diving, EyeWide Digital Marketing, Mike Parrish, Minas Liapakis, SCUBA, scuba diving, SeaScape, SeaScape Luxury Residences

EyeWide Digital Marketing Wins Big At the Greek Hospitality Awards 2018

2018-02-26 by Phil Butler

EyeWide

EyeWide Digital Marketing participated in three categories at the 2018 Greek Hospitality Awards, and was distinguished in all at the Greek winning one Gold and two Silver awards.

Tags: awards events, e-Travel Technologies, Ethos Evernts, EyeWide Digital Marketing, Google Premier Partner, Greece hotels, Greek Hospitality Awards 2018, Greek hotels, hotel marketing, hotel PR, hotel promotion, Lefteris Trihakis, Minas Liapakis, travel awards, XPHMA Magazine

EyeWide Digital Nominated for Greek Hospitality Awards

2018-02-16 by Argophilia Travel News

EyeWide Digital Marketing Agency, one of Europe’s leading hospitality marketing companies, has been nominated for several Greek Hospitality Awards for 2018.

Tags: Aldemar Resorts, Anemos, Celestyal Cruises, CHRIMA Magazine, Ethos Events, EyeWide, EyeWide Digital Marketing, Grecotel, Greek Hospitality Awards, hotel awards, Hotelbrain, marketing, Minas Liapakis

Five Videos to Make You Mad for Crete in 2018

2018-01-13 by Phil Butler

We moved to Crete for good in the Summer of 2017. The reasons for an American and a Romanian to venture far afield from America or our previous home in central Europe are manifold, but a 2014 visit played a major role.

Tags: Aravanes, Balos, crete, Crete Urban Adventures, Elafonisi, Jay Thomas, matala, Mike Parrish, Minas Liapakis, Rebecca Skevaki, Thrónos, Vai

Mission to Crete: Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko Tests Philoxenia

2016-07-19 by Aleksandr Shatskih

© Sputnik/ Maksim Blinov

Yuri Malenchenko (54) is at the new Cretan resort Anemos Luxury Grand Resort recouping from 6 months aboard the international space station, according to the news from Chania province.

Tags: Anton Shkaplerov, crete, Crete travel, Greece, Minas Liapakis, NASA, Philoxenia, Roscosmos, Yuri Malenchenko

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