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TUI payments delay puts survival of Greek hoteliers at risk

November 12, 2020 Economy 2

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 …

Repeated Covid-19 tests on crew of Mein Schiff 6 turned negative

September 29, 2020 CORONAVIRUS Comments Off on Repeated Covid-19 tests on crew of Mein Schiff 6 turned negative

Repeated rapid Covid-19 tests on crew members of cruise ship “Mein Schiff 6” on Tuesday morning were all negative , Greek media reported. The National Public Health Organization (EODY) carried out the tests after the cruise liner arrived at the port on Piraeus at 5 o’ clock in the morning. …

First cruise ship docks at Piraeus port after 6-month cruises ban

September 16, 2020 Tourism Comments Off on First cruise ship docks at Piraeus port after 6-month cruises ban

German cruise ship “Mein Schiff 6” departed from the port of Piraeus on Tuesday night, having been the first cruise ship that relaunched cruising in the Eastern Mediterranean on September 13, and the first to dock at Piraeus after a 6-month suspension of cruises in Greece. The ship was welcomed …

Zante-Cardiff flight passengers in self-isolation after coronavirus cases

August 31, 2020 CORONAVIRUS Comments Off on Zante-Cardiff flight passengers in self-isolation after coronavirus cases

Passengers who were on a flight from Zante – the Greek island of Zakynthos – to Cardiff in Wales last week have been told to isolate after it was identified as the source of at least seven confirmed coronavirus cases, Public Health Wales said on Sunday. Health officials said that …

TUI increases UK flights to Greece due to Spain quarantine

July 30, 2020 Tourism Comments Off on TUI increases UK flights to Greece due to Spain quarantine

Tour operator TUI has extended the suspension of holidays to the Balearic Islands and Canary Islands for UK customers until August 4, and will increase flights to Greece and Turkey this weekend to enable more affected customers to switch their destinations. Britons were less inclined to consider Spanish destinations after …

TUI charter from Sweden lands on Rhodes despite direct flight ban

July 2, 2020 Tourism 6

A chartered flight landed on the island of Rhodes from Stockholm on Thursday afternoon, although there is an official direct flight ban from Sweden until July 15, 2020. “There was a permit for a marketing flight,” Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis said. However, neither journalists nor TUI executives were on board …

TUI threatened to cancel all trips to Greece, if tested tourists in quarantine

July 1, 2020 CORONAVIRUS 5

Travel company TUI has openly threatened the Greek government that it would cancel all its trips to Greece due to the 36-hour quarantine Athens reportedly wanted to impose on tested tourists, German daily BILD reports on Wednesday. Reason for the threats was the original Greek plan that tourists tested in …

Greece and TUI sign “strategic cooperation agreement”

June 30, 2020 Greece 1

Greece and British-German multinational travel company UI signed a strategic agreement on Tuesday with the commitment to support the Greek tourism. Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis and chief executive of TUI Group Sebastian Ebel signed the agreement on the island of Kos, where the first international flight, a special TUI flight …

First international flight lands on Kos 2 days before official opening

June 29, 2020 Tourism 2

Two days before the official premier of the re-opening of Greece’s regional airports, the first international flight will land on the island of Kos on Monday, June 29. On board of the special TUI flight from Germany will be 170 doctors and nurses. The trip of the German doctors to …

Greece has “good chances” of opening to tourism soon, says TUI

May 1, 2020 CORONAVIRUS 1

Greece, as well as Cyprus, Bulgaria and Portugal, have “good chances” of opening up to tourism soon, said Fritz Joussen, executive chairman of German tourism group TUI. These countries sought talks with TUI and are preparing “very intensively for the return of tourists,” Joussen told Der Spiegel magazine, in an …

UK plane bound to Egypt makes emergency landing in Greece after bomb threat

April 4, 2011 Very Mix Comments Off on UK plane bound to Egypt makes emergency landing in Greece after bomb threat

A Thomson Airways Boing from UK to Sharm-el-Sheik made an emergency landing in Athens airport Eleftherios Venizelos after a bomb threat. According to latest information, the passengers have been immediately boarded off the plane. The thriller in the skies occurred when the plane was in the Athens FIR and created …

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