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TUI’s Greece Bookings Skyrocket – Greeks Only Want Their Lives Back

2021-03-17 by Phil Butler

Moderna

With the pandemic still ravaging Greece’s citizens and the country’s economy, foreign business interests seem to be calling all the shots (pun intended).

Tags: COVID-19 Greece, Greece 2021, Greece summer, Greek holiday, Harry Theoharis, Kara Godfrey, Kos Island, Kos Vacations, Noel Josephides, OKU Kos, Sunvil Group, TUI, TUI Cruises, TUI Holidays, vaccine schedule

Mitsotakis To Greeks: “Just Relax” – TUI Says “Use Code SUMMER100”

2021-03-16 by Phil Butler

TUI deals

The pandemic is still on the rise in Greece, but promoting tourism above all else still seems to be the priority. Meanwhile, TUI goes on sales rampage.

Tags: AstraZeneca, Boris Johnson, Crete vacations, European Medicines Agency, Harry Theoharis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Sputnik V, SUMMER100, TUI, TUI BLUE Atlantica Creta Paradise, TUI Summer 2021, UK travelers, vaccine

Greece’s COVID “Tourism First” Strategy Is a Dangerous Disgrace

2021-03-15 by Phil Butler

Harry Theoharis

Greek officials divert much needed COVID-19 vaccines to small islands in a bid to make safe destinations for Summer.

Tags: Amphilochia, Arta, Corinth, Coronavirus vaccine, crete, EODY, Greece COVID-19, Greece tourism, Greek tourism strategy, Harry Theoharis, Heraklion COVID, island vaccine program, Kastellorizo Island, Lefkada, Mitsotakis administration, PAGNI, PAGNI Hospital, pandemic, panedemic response, Samos, Syros, Tourism Minister Theoharis, TUI, vaccine

A Statement About Greece Tourism, COVID, the Vaccine, and Patience

2021-03-12 by Phil Butler

Phil Butler

A candid statement from the editor of Argo Travel News, about the untenable pandemic situation, people, and ministry in charge of caring.

Tags: AMKA, Celestyal Cruises, COVID vaccine, Crete COVID, Crete pandemic, Gloria Guevara, Greece pandemic, ITB Berlin, Ministry of Development and Investment, Norbert Fiebig, PAGNI Hospital, pandemic response, TUI, vaccine, WTTC

TUI Wishing On April for “Pent Up” Travel Jitters to Take Effect

2021-02-11 by Phil Butler

Mykonos

Tour giant TUI’s net debt has ballooned to 7.2 billion euros during this pandemic, and the company is despate to reboot operations in Spring.

Tags: 2021 Greece, 2021 tourism, 2021 travel, COVID-19 effects, market analysis, pandemic travel, tourism 2021, travel market, TUI

Why Isn’t TUI Already Sunken To the Bottom of the Deadpool?

2021-01-09 by Phil Butler

TUI logo

TUI stocks have now bottomed out as the Anglo-German travel firm staggers under the weight of a pandemic. So why is the group still afloat?

Tags: tourism, travel, travel companies, travel markets, TUI, TUI Group, TUI Group sales, TUI stocks, Wall Street

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

A Truly Sustainable Greece Tourism: The Essentials

2020-12-26 by Phil Butler

Kommos Beach

Greek desicionmakers are now wrestling with the idea of a new model for tourism. Let’s hope they are serious this time.

Tags: Alejandro Hernández-Puértola, Aravanes Traditional Tavern, Candia Maris, Crete hotels, Crete tourism, Crete vacation, Crete villages, degrowth, Environment, Greece tourism, HIP, John Vourdoubas, Konstantinos Andriotis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Luxury Hotels, NBG, Next Generation EU, Porter’s Five Forces, Sustainable Greece, TUI, Yiannis Retsos

TUI Group’s Fritz Joussen Proclaims Company “Future Proof”

2020-12-11 by Phil Butler

TUI CEO

TUI Group CEO Fritz Joussen proves once and for all his company could care less about sustainability, people, or future other than dividends.

Tags: airlines, All-inclusive, cruises, Fritz Joussen, resorts, sustainability, sustainable, TUI, TUI Group, TUI resorts, TUI stocks

Short of Cash: TUI Solvency Threatens Hundreds of Greek Businesses

2020-11-14 by Phil Butler

News that Greek hoteliers are over a barrel because TUI AG has not yet to pay millions of euros to certain hotels, comes as little surprise.

Tags: bailout, bankrupt hotels, Greece, Greece hotels, Lufthansa, TUI, TUI Group, TUI losses, TUI profits, TUI stock

Lockdown II: On the Trail of Greece’s COVID-19 Fumblefest

2020-11-05 by Phil Butler

Vancouver Rally

Greek decision makers have been crazily optimistic since the first COVID-19 lockdown. Their optimism seems misplaced now.

Tags: COVID-19, COVID-19 deaths, Destination Greece Health First, Endless Greek Summer, Greece from Home, Greece lockdown, GTP, Harry Theoharis, Kathimerini, Minister Harry Theoharis, Mitsotakis administration, SETE, TUI, Vassilis Kikilias, Yiannis Retsos

Greek Officials Disconnect from Reality in Pandemic Experiment

2020-11-04 by Phil Butler

COVID Travel

A news roundup that proves Greek officials haven’t got a clue about the pandemic. Tourism officials are putting out fires with gasoline.

Tags: COVID cases, COVID cruises, cruise lines, Greece hotels, Greece tourism, Greece tourism ministry, Greek ports, Harry Theoharis, hotelier, hoteliers, Jet2Holidays, Manos Valis, Piraeus Port Authority, Samos, Samos Island, TUI

Can Greece Avoid a COVID Second Wave Becoming a Tsunami?

2020-10-27 by Phil Butler

COVID Tsunami

The lastest coronavirus tally in Greece is 715 cases in a 24-hour period. Some fear the second wave may turn into a tsunami of death and economic devastation.

Tags: COVID-19 Greece, Greece 2020, Greece tourism, Greek Parliament, Harry Theoharis, Mitsitakis, Nikos Igoumenidis, pandemic Greece, pandemic response, pandemic restrictions, pandemic second wave, second wave, TUI, Vacation Greece

Just How Many Greeks Does TUI Feel Are Expendable?

2020-10-20 by Phil Butler

Greek headstones

TUI is now lauding the Greek efforts to restart tourism in the summer of 2020 just as COVID-19 takes a horrible toll.

Tags: GTP, TUI

All the Greece Travel News “Almost” Worth Reporting

2020-10-19 by Phil Butler

Empty Greek beach

October 19th, 2020 is a monumental day. It’s the first day in a decade Argophilia Travel News could not find news worth reporting.

Tags: COVID-19 Greece, Doh, German travelers, Germany travel, Greece 2020, Greece tourism, Greece tourism ministry, Greek vacation, Harry Theoharis, tours, TUI

Royal Caribbean Seeks $1 Billion in Pandemic Damage Control Capital

2020-10-14 by Phil Butler

Royal Caribbean

In heavy financial seas because of the coronavirus pandemic, Royal Caribbean Group is on the hunt for $1 billion to stay afloat.

Tags: Cruise industry, cruise lines, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, Royal Caribbean, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Royal Caribbean stocks, stocks, TUI, TUI Cruises

Ocean Rebellion Launches Protests Against Cruise Industry

2020-10-01 by Phil Butler

Ocean Rebellion

Ocean Rebellion just launched a night-time protest in Weymouth in order to reveal the “dirty truth of the cruise shipping industry”.

Tags: Carnival Cruise Lines, Cruise industry, cruise line pollution, cruise lines, cruise ships, Cunard, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, global warming, Marella Cruises, Mein Schiff 6, Ocean Rebellion, P&O, pollution, TUI, TUI Cruises

Greece Officials Showing Off in TUI Dog & Pony Show

2020-09-25 by Phil Butler

Dog and pony show

Greece seems to be caving in to pressure from German tour giant TUI to forge through a COVID 2nd wave and create off season bookings.

Tags: Greece lockdown, Greece tourism, Greece tourism ministry, Greek Prime Minister, Harry Theoharis, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, lockdown, Sebastian Ebel, Theoharis, travel stocks, TUI, TUI Group, TUI stocks

Tourism Profits and Surfing the Humongous COVID Second Wave

2020-09-22 by Phil Butler

surfing the COVID wave

Greek authorities have reported 453 new coronavirus cases, which is the highest single-day rise since the end of lockdown. Meanwhile, corporate interests sail full speed a course into the unknown.

Tags: Adam Vojtech, CDC, Corfu, Coronavirus cases, cruise lines, cruise ships, EODY, Europe, Greece COVID-19, Lufthansa, Roda Beach Village, seafarers, TravelSupermarket, TUI, UK cases, UK coronavirus, UK fights, WHO

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

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