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Er du Hellas-entusiast men synes at mye av det greske faktisk e r “helt gresk”? Nå har du sjansen til å øke kunnskapen om Hellas og alt det greske, språket inkludert.
Historie, matlaging, kultur, musikk og språk er noe av det som står på programmet når Albatros arrangerer “Vårskole i Hellas – fra Athen til Tolos”, en 15-dagers temareise, som har avreise Norge 30.mars, skriver Se og Hør.
Tolos er en landsby på Peleponnes-halvøya.
Priser fra ca.kr.12,000 per person, inkludert fly.
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Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis told reporters on Tuesday that the Greek capital attracted some 4.1 million foreign visitors in 2015, while pointing to a ‘dramatic increase’ between 2014 and 2016, tornosnews.gr reported.
Mr Kaminis spoke at a press conference after the holding of the fourth annual Travel Trade Athens event.
The Athens mayor said it was the best figure ever for tourism arrivals in the Greek capital, which has seen its fair share of upheavals and social pressure during seven straight years of economic meltdown in the country.
Additionally, he promised that municipal duties – slapped on electricity bills – will have been reduced by 20 percent when his tenure is completed in 2019.
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It’s been a busy winter in downtown Athens, where scaffolding, tarpaulins and dust have been symbols of hope: a mini construction boom heralding a tourist renaissance, The Guardian newspaper reported.
Nine hotels are being built or restored around the city centre. Their arrival correlates with the huge upturn in holidaymakers visiting the Greek capital since a low point in late 2008.
“It’s a miracle, what’s been happening in Athens?”, Greece’s tourism chief, Andreas Andreadis, told the Observer newspaper. “The tourist industry in Greece grew two to three times faster than in Spain, Portugal, Italy or France last year. This year we expect around 4.5 million visitors in Athens alone.”
A record 23.5 million holidaymakers visited Greece in 2015 – generating 14.2 bn euros in direct receipts, or 24% of gross domestic product.
In 2010, at the start of the country’s debt crisis – which has seen it struggle to avert default and remain in the euro – revenues from tourism were 10 bn euros, or 15% of GDP.
Read the full story in The Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/28/greece-tourism-boom-athens-jobs-growth
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Τhe most popular tourist guide of Athens for the last 20 years, Athens Guide by City Contact was released on April 1st, 2016 and is already being delivered daily throughout leading hotels in Greece’s capital, to be read by thousands of tourists and visitors, Tornosnews.gr can report.
Its Spring Edition is completely revised, featuring larger dimensions and intends to provide the highest quality view of local businesses to Athen’s visitors.
It is printed in 90,000 copies, will be read by approximately 195.000 tourists and visitors and can be found at 400 circulation points throughout City Contact’s info stand system. The guide is under the auspices of HATTA (Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies) and the Region of Attica.
The Athens Guide can be found until the middle of June at the following distribution points:
– Info Stands at 99 leading city hotels – 3 Athens Marinas (Marina Zea, Olympic Marina and Flisvos Marina) – Tourist police’s office on Klafthmonos Square – Daily tours by Athens Walking Tours – Embassies – Tourism businesses, conferences and events – Various other tourist accommodation establishments
More than 650,000 tourists annually read the Athens Guide and stay updated on the best entertainment spots, shopping, food, drink and activities in the city.
It was published for the first time in 1998 as a completely bilingual (English & Greek) guide to Athens and is now offered in Chinese and Russian as well.
The guide includes specially designed maps of the city center, the greater Attica area, Sygrou Avenue and Glyfada. Eight editions are published annualy and distributed among Athens’ hotels.
The 2016 Athens Guide includes:
– Practical information (useful numbers, emergency numbers, taxi services, postal offices, country codes, etc.) – Complete guide in Chinese and Russian language. – Excursions in Athens and surrounding areas – Sightseeing & culture – Health & safety – Shopping – Traditional Greek Products – Food and Dining – Entertainment & Nightlife – Maps
City Contact developed the Info Stand system in 1996 which provides visitors useful information through free publications throughout Greece such as maps, visitors guides and other printed informational material and has been managing it ever since.
The company works exclusively with 200 of the top hotels in Greece in the major tourist areas of the country such as Athens, Crete, Rhodes, Santorini and Thessaloniki.
City Contact distributes annually via the Info Stand network more than 2 million publication copies to visitors in these areas in order to fully cover the informational requirements of the hotels and their clients.
The current guide’s issue includes special features on Monastiraki, Thissio and Psiri neighbourhoods of Athens as well as a welcoming message from Attica Region Governor Rena Dourou.
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Athens ranks among the most popular Christmas holiday destinations in Europe, with inexpensive accommodation to boot, according to data released by international hotel price comparison website Trivago, ekathimerini.com reported.
Athens was 24th out of the 50 most popular European destinations as shown by searches made around the world for the Christmas period. It also ranked joint fourth with Budapest among the most attractive cities in financial terms for hotel accommodation, as the average online rate per night for the period in the Greek capital comes to 74 euros for a double room. Athens was beaten by Valencia (66 euros/night), Krakow (68 euros) and Malaga (73 euros).
The average stay in Athens appears to be six days, with the capital being the only Greek city in the top 50, while Spain has 13 entries.
Meanwhile Athens International Airport and Marketing Greece has presented their new campaign to promote Athens as a city break destination, titled “Speak Athenian, Be an Athenian.”
Iosif Parsalis, general manager of Marketing Greece, stated that the new integrated digital campaign, which uses a mix of Greek and English terms with Greek and Latin characters, is aimed at the 24-40 age group. He added that greater emphasis has been placed on attracting visitors from specific countries, among them Germany, France, Great Britain and the US.
AIA’s communication and marketing director, Ioanna Papadopoulou, noted that part of the campaign will involve a series of themed events both at the airport and in the city itself in cooperation with tourism entities and other bodies.
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Tourists keep on coming to Athens, but a lot of them stay in the 8,000 houses that are rented privately in the Greek capital, tornosnews.gr reports.
Consequently, Athenian hotels fail to reap the benefits from the rise of arrivals, recorded at the Athens International Airport. According to the Athens-Attica and Argosaronic Hotel Association, they suffered the effects of falling demand during the September-November period despite a increase in visitors to the Greek capital.
The Association’s president Alexandros Vassilikos said at a press conference on Tuesday that the impressive 23 percent increase in foreign tourist arrivals to Athens does not reflect on the occupancy of hotels in the Attica area.
The average occupancy rate in Athens during the first 11 months of 2015 did not exceed 3.7 percent and dropped by 3.8 percent in September, by 6.1 percent in October and by 4.6 percent in November.
Mr Vassilikos asked “where are all these visitors to Athens staying” and pointed towards the thousands of properties that are currently operating illegally as accommodation units in the Greek capital.
He underlined that over 8,000 properties are currently operating illegally in Athens and called on the government to protect the hotel enterprises that operate within the law.
As the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels reported earlier, hosting of tourists in illegal accommodation causes legitimate hotels to lose 12 million overnight stays, which translates to over 500 million euros of less revenue.
Mr Vassilikos noted that Athens still has the lowest average room rate – 90 euros – compared to other European countries and added that strategic choices must be made for Athens as a destination to increase visitor numbers.
These choices include upgrading existing hotels, promoting the Áttica Riviera and establishing a metropolitan conference center within the city.
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The Hellenic Police has launched its tourist police Visitors? Help Office in Athens, completing a plan initiated by the previous leadership of the civil protection ministry, in collaboration with the Greek hoteliers? chamber, according to the greekreporter.com
Inaugurated on Saturday, the new help desk seeks to assist tourists visiting Greece, providing them with necessary guidelines and information of a police and more general tourist interest. It is also envisaged as a service to manage and rapidly response to the more common problems or incidents that arise involving foreign visitors, such as loss of travel documents, thefts and the issue of necessary certificates, reports and other documents.
The Help Office is manned by specially trained staff that speak foreign languages and is located near Klafthmonos Square in central Athens, in an arcade at 4 Dragatsaniou Street.
It will operate on a full-time basis throughout the year, between the hours of 7:30 am and 10 pm, and can be contacted at the telephone numbers 210 3222230 and 210 3222232.
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I morgen, mandag 20.juli, blir det dyrere å spise og drikke i Hellas, da momsen øker på en lang rekke varer. Det var et av kravene landets internasjonale kreditorer har stilt for at Hellas skal få en ny låneavtale, skriver NTB / www.e24.no
Moms på drikkevarer og mat på greske spisesteder økes fra 13 til 23 prosent.
Illustrasjonsfoto: yelp.ca
-Vår moussaka og ouzo kommer uheldigvis til å være dyrere fra mandag, sier Kostas Sarafis, en servitør i Athen, til nyhetsbyrået DPA.
Økningen i moms og avgifter ventes ifølge greske medier å tilføre statskassen 800 millioner euro, tilsvarende rundt 7 milliarder kroner, fram til årsskiftet.
Dessuten skal avgifter på andre varer økes fra og med mandag. Greske medier hadde søndag satt opp en liste over varer som kommer til å bli dyrere: Kjøtt, fisk, kaffe, te, juice, ris, mel meieriprodukter, toalettpapir og kondomer.
Ellers åpner de greske bankene igjen i morgen, men fremdeles med restriksjoner på uttak – som er satt til 60 euro per dag. Dette gjelder ikke utenlandske turister.
