The conferences will now be held with 100% fullness in the halls after the change of protocols decided yesterday by the government after a suggestion of the Committee of Experts.
Speaking about the changes in the protocols, the Minister of Tourism, Vassilis Kikilias, told ANT1 that they will no longer be mandatory with live streaming but with live streaming, while the distribution of printed and conference material will now be allowed.
Read excerpts from the interview of the Minister of Tourism:
Changing the protocols for holding conferences – We support conference Tourism
As a Government, we support all aspects of the tourism product. At its meeting yesterday, the Commission changed the protocols for the conferences for the better in relation to the tourism product. Decided 100% occupancy in the rooms of vaccinated citizens in conferences and exhibition centers. It also gives the possibility that our conferences are not necessarily live streaming, but live now, while the distribution of printed and conference material will now be allowed. This is a big case for conference Tourism, but also for 12-month hotels.
Europeans will spend 39% more this year on tourism
Here are some facts. Europeans will spend 39% more this year on tourism.
Greece is among the top three destinations in the world for Northern Europeans by Accor, one of the largest tourism and hotel brands in the world. Crete and Rhodes are among the 5 top destinations in the world for 2022, based on booking.
We have a 22% increase from the UK market in January bookings and we see a 28% increase compared to 2019, for the summer of 2022 from the UK.
We open on March 1 with a rise in the market for travelers from the Nordic countries and France, with 14 direct flights a day from America, starting on March 7, as I announced with the Ambassador of the United States, while on April 2 we have the first direct flight Canada-Athens.
Tourism is the popular economy of the country
It is obvious that the country is coming to be credited with being a safe destination and the work we have done in tackling the coronavirus, especially in the early stages, is coming to be credited to the country’s brand.
Beyond that is an ideological battle. Our party, the New Democracy, supports radical liberalism, the welfare state, that is, the support of those who do not have and those who can not, and the backbone of the Greek economy that is the middle class.
Tourism, which is the popular economy of the country, involves hundreds of thousands of employees and essentially indirectly or directly the average Greek family, will be the counterweight to the energy crisis.
There will be social tourism programs this year as well
This year we were given the opportunity after the permission of the Health Committee and it was a government decision finally, to have our winter tourism open.
Mostly, in 90%, it was driven by internal visitors. All the popular winter tourist destinations were full.
I have pointed out to the big tour operators abroad to give better prices to our hoteliers and our hoteliers better salaries to the employees and correct packages for the Greeks.
There will be social tourism programs this year as well. Sofia Zacharaki, an excellent colleague and colleague, is in charge. He succeeded last year, we will do it again this year. What I want to say is that our compatriots should hurry to make reservations early, because as I see it, there will be a huge interest in the country.
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