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Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens International Airport

14/10/2011 Easytraveller No Comments Travel News

A short photographic presentation of the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens International Airport from 12 October till 06 January 2012. In this presentation visitors will have the opportunity to experience the Cycladic civilization, one of the oldest civilizations of Europe organized communities, through images and texts. Visitors will learn more about the Cycladic figurines, as well as clay, stone, and metal vessels and objects of the era.

The collection of the Museum of Cycladic Art, one of the largest collections of its kind worldwide, including more than 400 objects from clay, stone, marble and metal, all periods of the Cycladic civilization.

You can learn more by visiting the web site of the museum

Daily flights Athens to Seoul via Istanbul

27/09/2011 Easytraveller 1 Comment Travel News

Turkish Airlines offers now daily flights from Athens to Seoul and vice versa, via Istanbul.

General Manager of Turkish Airlines in Greece, Mr. Gulay Ozturk, outlined the second FAM trip, organized by Turkish Airlines, which involved leading travel agents from Seoul with this statement:

“It was a great pleasure for us that we have made and the second trip this year, with the participation-this time-of travel agents from Korea. This is a very important measure, which aims at strengthening the overall tourism and the emergence of new destinations, opening the Asian market. ”

Turkish Airlines is willing to create new tourist arrivals from Korea, which is one from the 190 destinations available now on its network.

Mr. Arnaoutakis, the district commissioner of Crete, in the speech to those Koreans, highlighted the importance of this energy and the collateral benefits: “In our efforts to increase visitors to Crete, the Asian markets are part of our strategies for the success of this quality objective in the coming years.
To us it is the responsibility to formulate as complete a manner the conditions so that our visitors, especially from distant countries to be compensated through the senses, knowledge, tastes and proposals that encapsulate the Cretan heritage thousands of years. ”

The Korean agents visited the sacred rock of Acropolis, the New Acropolis Museum, the Panathenaic stadium and browse streets of Plaka. Then visited the island of Crete and especially Agios Nikolaos and Elounda and were guided at the palace of Knossos.

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Olympic Air and KLM are sharing codes

19/09/2011 Easytraveller No Comments Travel News

An agreement signed between the two airlines and being in force from 01 September, entitles the airlines to market flights between Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos for connecting traffic under each others flight numbers.

The new code share agreement enables Olympic Air to increase the number of daily flight offerings to its customers from nine to sixteen per week and KLM to raise also the offering to its customers from two to three daily flights.

From September 12th, this code share agreement has been further enhanced, offering 8 destinations to KLM passengers in the Greek domestic market & 8 European destinations to Olympic Air passengers.

Passengers of KLM will be able to book also flights to Alexandroupolis, Santorini, Chania, Heraklion, Ioannina, Kos, Rhodes and Thessaloniki, for connecting services operated by Olympic Air.

Olympic Air passengers will be able to connect at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport for flights to Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Goteborg, Hamburg, Manchester, Oslo & Stockholm under an Olympic Air flight number.

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International passenger traffic increase by 7.3% according to IATA

05/09/2011 Easytraveller No Comments Travel News

According to a statement of IATA international passenger traffic grew by7.3%, while domestic by 3.5%.

The load factor rose in July by 0.5% to83.1% compared to last year in July, the North America at 86.9% while Europe increased to 84.1% with an increase of 9.3% in demand and 8.9%in capacity. Largest increases were recorded in Latin America with10.3%followed by the Middle East by 9.7%.

In a statement,General Director/CEO of IATA, Mr. Tony Tyler said that this increase is likely due to the good economic outlook earlier this year,unfortunately,do not expect these results at the end of the year because of international economic environment and the fuel increase

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More flights Amsterdam – Athens by Olympic Air

06/05/2011 Easytraveller No Comments Travel News

As per last announcement Olympic Air will increase flights between Amsterdam and Athens fduring the 2011 summer period.
In order to boost sales of the short-haul connection within the Benelux countries, the Greek airline has appointed AVIAREPS, the world’s leading aviation and tourism management specialist as General Sales Agent (GSA) with a mandate to represent Olympic Air and attract new customers within the region. From the AVIAREPS branch offices in Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Diegem (Belgium), General Manager Xander Scheffel and his team will coordinate all sales, marketing and ticketing activities on behalf of the airline.
Olympic Air currently offers daily flights from Amsterdam to Athens with Airbus A320 aircraft, which are with 162 seats. As of mid May 2011 the Greek airline will increase service frequency and add an eighth and ninth scheduled flight on the Amsterdam-Athens route, departing Amsterdam Airport Schiphol every Friday and Sunday with two daily flights. From Athens, passengers can conveniently continue their journey by taking one of the numerous domestic or international flights of Olympic Air. Thanks to the latest code-share agreement with Cyprus Airways the Greek airline’s route map now consists of 27 international destinations including Larnaca and Paphos, and 32 destinations within Greece.

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Egypt will be the partner country of ITB Berlin 2012

18/03/2011 Easytraveller 1 Comment Travel News

Egypt will be the partner country of ITB Berlin 2012 after an agreement signed by the Egyptian Minister of Tourism and the CEO of Messe Berlin.

”This is extremely important for us”, said Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, the Egyptian Minister of Tourism at ITB Berlin, adding, “we stand by our business partners and will be honouring all our agreements“. He noted that as the sector contributing most to the Egyptian economy tourism would continue to remain important. “The livelihood of one in seven Egyptians depends directly or indirectly upon tourism.” The tourism authorities have reacted quickly and adjusted their promotional campaigns to accommodate recent events.

The peaceful revolution has been the theme dominating the participation of this popular tourism destination in this year’s ITB Berlin. Having taken up his post two weeks ago, the new minister of tourism expressed his delight that ITB Berlin was the destination of his first trip abroad.

Taking as its slogan “Welcome to the country of the peaceful revolution“, a campaign has been launched focusing on a peaceful new beginning. The previous headline “Egypt – where everything began“ still holds true but, according to Amr El Ezaby of the Egyptian Tourism Board, in the present tense it takes on a new meaning. “Egypt – where everything begins” is the slogan now.

The demonstrations at the end of January caused a huge decline in tourism. However it is already beginning to recover. There were no visitors in February, but Abdel Nour hopes to secure their return in March. “Tourism will be back to previous levels sooner than expected.“

He is confident that the overall statistics in 2011 will be equal to those of 2010. Last year there were 14.2 million tourists, 1.33 million of whom were Germans, which surpassed the 2009 figure for German tourists by 10.5 %.

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The profile of the New Chinese Tourist

11/03/2011 Easytraveller No Comments Travel News

As part of the ITB Berlin, international tourism fair, a discussion panel with more than 100 participants was arranged by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt, director of COTRI China Outbound Tourism Research Institute with subjest “The New Chinese Tourist”.

The keynote speech of the panel, delivered by Jens Thraenhart, the president of Dragon Trail (Beijing), emphasised the segmentation which is visible in today’s Chinese outbound travelers. Not only is it necessary to distinguish between the cheap-and-awful mass tourism tours and the offers for affluent travelers. Even within the affluent travelers segment, nouveaux riches and understaters, achievers and dreamers have developed as separate parts of the market. Flashing the newly achieved wealth or relishing understatement, concentrating on the career or entering fairy tales in daily life – the wishes of the rich customers have to be fulfilled if international destinations and companies want a piece of the cake of the growing Chinese outbound tourism source market.

All participants agreed that the sophistication and the diversity of demands of the affluent guests from China will further grow in the coming years, providing opportunities for companies and destinations which do their homework for the Chinese market.

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New iPhone application from Athens International Airport

12/01/2011 Easytraveller Leave a comment Travel News

A new electronic service called ATH Airport is available from the Athens International Airport for iPhone.

ATH Airport is the official free iPhone app of Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”. Find your flight details, browse through our shops, get up-to-date information about the airport and much more through your iPhone. Everything you want to know about Athens International Airport whether you are travelling, visiting or accompanying friends or family.
Features in this version:
Real-Time Flight Information
Get real-time information and updates on your flight, the minute you want it. Simply enter your flight number or airline or destination in the search box. This service requires an Internet connection.
Timetable
Search all the flights to and from Athens International airport. This service requires an Internet connection
Access
Get information on how to access Athens International Airport, be it by car, taxi, bus or metro.
Parking
Get information on our various parking options, and check your parking cost by using our parking calculator.
Airport Information
Get information on our airport e.g. our airlines, our shops and many more.

Louis Cruises passenger line of 2010

15/12/2010 Easytraveller Leave a comment Travel News

2010 Passenger Line of the year, is awarded Louis Cruises by Lloyds list.
The Greek Shipping Minister, government officials as well as a number of leading personalities from the political, business and shipping community of Greece honored the prestigious ceremony with their presence.
Louis Loizou, Executive Director of Louis Group on behalf of his father Costakis Loizou, expressed great pleasure for this honoring recognition and said that the award coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Group’s founding back in 1935 and 55 years since Louis Group started its successful operations in Greece.
Louis Loizou emphasized the great future of Greek tourism and especially cruising has and urged everyone to believe in this potential and work hard in reestablishing Greece to its leading position on the world cruising map. He noted: “Unfortunately, so far, we have not altogether examined this issue in depth so as to take the necessary steps and develop cruising by capitalizing on Greece’s competitive advantages”.
This award constitutes a rewarding recognition for the 25year-long successful history of Louis Cruises.
In his closing remarks Mr. Loizou expressed his sincere thanks to the more than 700 Greek officers and crew that are employed aboard the Louis fleet as well as to the 2,500 dedicated members of staff the Group employs in Greece whose efforts have led to this important award.

For details on Mediterranean Cruises by Louis Cruises please click here

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Qatar Airways celebrates 5 years of presence in Greece

09/12/2010 Easytraveller Leave a comment Travel News

5 years of successful operations in Greece celebrated Qatar Airways in a gala dinner. The event was honored by the presence of the President of GNTO Mr Nikolaos Kanellopoulos, H.E. the Ambassador of Qatar Mr Mohamed AL Misnad, the Counselor of Qatar Mr Mohamed Al Hajri, the President of Arab Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Mr Christos Folias and the General Secretary Mr Mohamed ET El Khazmi, as well as representatives from our major Airport, GSA partners and marine/corporate/leisure travel agencies with whom Qatar Airways collaborated since June 2005, date of Athens route launch.
Mr Alexandros Michalopoulos Sales Manager Qatar Airways Greece & Cyprus opened the event with a speech on Qatar Airways worldwide phenomenal expansion and impressive growth in the Greek Market highlighting the fact that in 5 years time we grew from 4 flights to 14 flights per week. Since March 2010 Qatar Airways offers double daily flights ex Athens maximizing connectivity to most of the 92 destinations worldwide and helping passengers to reach favorite destinations as Dubai, Seychelles, Maldives, Beijing, Shanghai, Phuket, Bali, Osaka, Tokyo and many others. Finally Mr Michalopoulos briefed the guests on the international recognition Qatar Airlines has gained over the past years commemorating the impressive accolade of awards received by Skytrax. Qatar Airways has been ranked as a 5 star services airline, one of the top 5 airlines in the world, “Best Business Cabin Class” in the world, “Best Catering” for Business Cabin Class worldwide, “Best Airline in the Middle East”, “Best Services in the Middle East” this new category replaces “Best Cabin Crew in Middle East” comprising customer services provided along the entire customer services chain from reservations and ticketing to airport check-in and in-flight services.
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