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The president of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, Alexandros Vassilikos conveyed to Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni the concerns and worries of the chamber’s members and representatives of tourist businesses regarding the draft law imposing a specific quota of Greek language songs in common areas of hotels. Beginning of the month, …

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Hoteliers on the island of Crete threaten employees with an penalty clause of 5,000 euros should they quit job during the tourism season. Note that such a “clause” is illegal, as the Labor Center states. Representatives of the Labor Center of Heraklion have made serious complaints about the “delinquent and …

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Greek hotels will be looking to staff 55,000 positions this summer, at what is expected to be a very busy summer, according to hoteliers in the country. 22% or over 1 in 5 available positions will remain unfilled, hoteliers say, speaking to state-run news agency amna. According to data provided …

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The survival of hundreds of Greek businesses in the hospitality industry is at stake after tour operator TUI earlier this month issued a series of contract amendments that require hotel owners to wait until March 2021 for three-quarters of the money due for accommodation booked this year, the Financial Times …

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Greece’s hoteliers are angry at the government following a ministerial decision obliging them to create special “Covid-19 rooms” that is isolation rooms within their facilities to host cases of coronavirus Covid-19, patients who do not require hospital care. The ministerial decision comes less than a week before the country opens …

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Development and Investment Minister, Adonis Georgiadis, has called on Greece’s hoteliers to open their facilities. “The great wager is tourism,” the minister said. But hoteliers seem reluctant to go in operation again in an unstable economic environment and uncertainty about how many tourists will come and from which countries. In …

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Hoteliers in northern Greece want more border checkpoints to be opened but the government is willing to open no more than four. Deputy Minister of Macedonia and Thrace Theodoros Karaoglou expressed concern over the situation at border checkpoints in northern Greece and issues regarding the opening of borders. Speaking to …

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Two screens warning of tsunami have been  installed on the inland of  Kos for the past few days. The screens have been installed a part of a pilot European Union funded program. Local businessmen and hoteliers are upset the screens may harm the tourist industry on the island in the …

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The Association of British Travel Agents has joined operators and hoteliers in calling on Greek tourism authorities to take swift action to clear up piles of dumped rubbish on the island of Corfu, in the Ionian Sea. For one more time, the problem has reached the level where tonnes of …

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It is certainly hard to believe your eyes but it is true. Hoteliers in some popular tourist destinations raised their prices this year to even up to 95%. According to hotels search engine trivago.gr, champion in price increase for the month June was Imerovigli village on the island of Santorini …

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