July 2001

- NEW ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FOR GREEK TOURISM
The Minister of Development Mr. Christodoulakis presented the new organizational structure for Greek Tourism to the National Tourism Council.
In addition the Minister of Development announced the newly established position of the President of the GNTO which will be help by Mr. Eugenios Ciannakopoulou, while the Position of Secretary General and Board of Directors are abolished. In the next couple of days the name of the person to hold the position of Secretary General of Tourism at the Ministry of Development will be announced.
Based on the new organizational structure within the authority of the Secretary General of the Tourism will be the GNTO Greek Tourism real estate, the Tourism schools, the Greek festival, and the National Tourism Council, which was upgraded and will operate with three task forces, in parallel with the operation of the main body.
Also under the Secretary General of Tourism will be the Peripheral Tourist offices the tourist ports, the Comity on Casinos, the Comity of Casino Control, the administration and the finance.During the meeting of the National Tourism Council Mr. Christodoulakis announced that bill is being written up, regarding touring education, for which the representatives of the various tourism fields will be called to submit their proposals.
In the meeting, issues such as development of the GNTO wealth, addressed the star system for hotels, the agreement between hoteliers and 2004 Comity for the hosting of the Olympic games and the upgrading of the Greek Festival were addressed.


Hellenic Travelling

- "ELLINIKA TOURISTIKA AKINHTA" EXPLOITS ITS MINOR ASSETS
"Ellhnika touristika akinhta" has started a gradual exploitation of its seemingly less important assets. More specifically, the company auctions off the following:
In Marathon: The tourist kiosks at the Tomb of Marathon and at Marathon Lake, which function as restaurants and cafeterias.
Xenia Hotel in Vytina. It is the well-known hotel unit with 20 rooms and forty beds, situated in the prefecture of Arcadia in Peloponese.
The traditional hotels in Pelion: The Mousli Mansion with 13 beds in Makrynitsa, the Xiradakis Mansion with 29 beds in Makrynitsa and the Evangelinakis Mansion with 19 beds in Milies.
The Railway-Restaurant in Lycabettus, which is a restaurant and a cafeteria operating on the hill. Also the funicular railway on Lycabettus.
The tourist kiosk in Zagora. It is in Pelion and operates as a cafeteria and a restaurant.

- PELLA CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS
After the conference that took place in Edessa regarding the development of tourism in both Edessa and Mountainous Pella, a number of conclusions were drawn.
There has been an effort to maintain a certain strategy as to the development of tourism in the above areas. It is also apparent that there are investment opportunities in the municipality of Edessa in the field of tourism. The handling of tourism issues in Pella needs to be more systematic in order to ensure unified co-ordination and planning, and private initiative needs to be encouraged.
The main goal of Edessa is to become a unified network, mainly supported by local businessmen, that will offer high quality tourist services while safeguarding its uniqueness.
The Minister of Macedonia-Thrace, Mr. George Paschalidis, stressed the fact that development will result from the unified and co-ordinated handling of tourist issues with the help of the State as well as the locals. Emphasis was placed on the potential of Edessa to play a major role in Greek tourism by the main speakers at the conference, Mr. Ioannis Sondras, Mayor of Edessa, Mr. Vassilios Valassopoulos, General Secretary of Central Macedonia, and Mr. Eugene Giannakopoulos, General Secretary of GNTO. Other important Greek and foreign speakers referred to the potential, the demands and the promotion of tourist products in the field of alternative forms of tourism, and offered their help to the region of Mountainous Pella, regarding the promotion of alternative holidays.

- ZEEBRUGGE PORT AS DIRECT LINK BETWEEN SCOTLAND AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE FOR SUPERFAST FERRIES
The board of directors of Attica Enterprises has announced that the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium was selected as the link between Scotland and Continental Europe for the Superfast ferries, starting May 2002.
Zeebrugge port was chose as the most appropriate for the ever-growing needs for tourist transportation and trade between Scotland and the main European markets.
The distance between the port of Rosyth in Edinburgh and Zeebrugge is going to take about 16 hours to cover by the Superfast vessels, i.e. much faster than the journey between Scotland and Continental Europe as things stand today, namely with the combination of road and sea transport.
Last September Superfast Ferries was chosen by the state organisation Scottish Enterprise as the most capable and most specialised company for the Scotland - Continental Europe route, among the 42 companies that had expressed an interest.
1 year from today Superfast ferries will serve seven European countries sailing in three main European seas, continuing the effort that the company has been making since 1995 to become the fastest and most modern fleet of passenger and car ferries in Europe.

- GOLDEN SUN AMONG THE FIRST 100 UK COMPANIES
Golden Sun Leisure has presented an impressive booking increase by 70% since the beginning of this tourist season. Golden Sun Holidays was awarded a prize by Deloitte & Touche Indy 100, taking the 88th place among the most rapidly expanding enterprises in the U.K.
Despite the general U.K. decrease in bookings for holidays in Greece and Cyprus, Golden Sun Leisure has managed to stabilise, even increase, its share in the market, due to the fact that the company made great efforts to develop the necessary delivery channels closing deals with hundreds of travel agencies in the U.K., while offering its customers airport tickets and accommodation at competitive prices.
Based on this increase of 70%, Golden Sun Leisure is certain that it will accomplish its aims for 2001, as was the case in the previous year when the company managed to enjoy larger profits.
The competition that awarded Golden Sun Holidays the prize has taken place eleven times and it was organised by Deloitte & Touche in collaboration with the newspaper "Independent on Sunday". Winners were selected by Deloitte & Touche and professor David Storey of the university of Warwick. The relevant research covered 7.700 companies with sales ranging between 5 and 100 million pounds and classified the companies according to their expansion rate. Golden Sun Holidays came in 88th and was the sole company from the field of tourism to receive such recognition.

- ETHIOPIA - NEW TOURIST DESTINATION
Intro Marketing and Consulting started its campaign to promote Ethiopia as a tourist destination with an event that took place at the Ethiopian restaurant AXUM in Athens on June 18, with the support of the Consulate of Ethiopia in Greece and Ethiopian Airlines. After the crisis with Erythrea Ethiopia is entering a new peaceful phase and claims its share in the worldwide tourist market.
The country is a constant source of new experiences and full of surprises. The tourist can become familiar with ways of life from millions of years ago. Its natural beauty impresses the visitor from the minute he sets foot on the place, with its lakes on volcano craters, its savannahs, wildlife parks exquisite sights and historical sites that show the ancient history of Ethiopia, as it is one of the few African countries that was never a colony.
Consul General of Ethiopia, Mrs. Terina Armenaki-Kalogeropoulou, stressed the fact that Ethiopia is now ready to host more visitors and gave a picture of the tourism mobility for this year. Before the crisis in 1987 the number of tourists visiting Ethiopia amounted to 137.000, while it is expected that by the end of 2001, 120.000 tourists will have chosen Ethiopia as their destination, a record number for the country. She gave assurances that the Consulate will always be close to the people of Tourism and the Press.
Area Manager, Mr. Issayas Woldemariam also spoke on behalf of Ethiopian Airlines, mentioning that that the airline, which is one of the oldest airlines worldwide, can serve the visitors' needs through a highly developed network. The guests had the opportunity to get informed about the beauty of Ethiopia, the services provided and the infra-structures that are being developed.
It was a typical Ethiopian event with traditional music and dancing, where the guests had the chance to taste Ethiopian food and end their meal with the traditional coffee ritual.

- AWARDS FOR EMIRATES
On the eve of the opening of the Arabian Travel , Emirates was awarded a prize for its services by professionals in the tourist industry from the Middle East.

The award of the prizes took place in the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London with the sponsoring of Atlas Air, and 67 countries took part in the competition.

According to the readers of Travel Intelligence Middle East magazine Emirates is the best airline in both Business and Economy class. Furthermore, its subsidiary company, Emirates holidays GM, won the prize for best Tour Operator, while Emirates Towers, the hotel of the company, was awarded first prize as Best Business Hotel.

Another of its subsidiaries, Emirates SkyCargo, was voted Company of the Year by the readers of the British magazine "Air Cargo News", a title that Emirates SkyCargo has already won for thirteen times in the Middle East and four times in India, and was among the first three companies in the Far East and Australia.

- HAPPENINGS AT CRETE AND CORFU LOUIS HOTELS
Louis Hotels successfully organised happenings at Louis Kerkyra Golf in Corfu and Louis Creta Princess in Crete on June 6 and 16 respectively.

The purpose of those events was for local tourist agents, tour operators and area managers of big tourist agencies to get acquainted with the managers of the two hotels, to wander in the renovated spaces of the hotels and to enjoy the delicacies of the hotels cuisine.
At Louis Kerkyra Golf the central restaurant was selected for the event, while at Louis Creta Princess the guests enjoyed a lovely evening by the three new swimming pools, tasting cold dishes and drinking cocktails.

With these happenings Louis Hotels aims at establishing close contact with the tourist world of the two islands, in order to aid at the development of those areas where its two hotel units are situated.

- FORESIGHT'S PROFILE AND IT'S DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES FOR 2004
Foresight Tourism Planning & Development is the first tourist consulting company in Greece. Since 1987 it has offered high quality services in the fields of marketing strategy, trade and business planning and lobbying.

The company plans and realises marketing programs for companies and organisations, based on its expertise, experience and creativity in those fields. It also deals with new trends in the tourist business, as well as with alternative forms of tourism and their potential, giving its custo-mers the opportunity to actively participate in the new trends, rather than simply follow them.

More specifically, Foresight focuses on
-the planning and development of tourist areas/products/services
-market research/potential
-the identity of the tourist product
-the development of promotion strategies
-the creation of business contacts and collaborations
-lobbying

In this framework Foresight presents its new programme 2004 Ways which is about services of trade and business planning and development for tourist enterprises, with the aim to exploit the trade perspectives related to 2004. It is a programme suitable for any Greek tourist company that wishes to develop new products and services for 2004, as well as for the period before and after the Games.
The potential for trade exploitation from 2001 to 2004 is great and it is certain that all Greek tourist businesses can play an important role and acquire a large share of the multiple profits of this period.

- AMADEUS BOOKING SYSTEM WINS OVER AMPHITRION HOLIDAYS
The fourth larger tourist agency in Greece, Amphitrion Holidays, has selected Amadeus Hellas for its booking system since the end of March. Four out of the six offices of Amphitrion have already installed the new booking system in their 37 computers since then. All users about 45 people- were trained for three weeks to ensure that the transition to the new system would be smooth.The new equipment was provided by Amadeus Hellas, which supervised the procedure and the timely delivery of the computers. The remaining two offices were equipped and trained by Amadeus at the end of June.

Mr. Roberto Copello, General Manager of Amadeus Hellas reports:
"It is a major success for Amadeus in Greece and it shows that we are heading to the right direction. Our co-operation with Amphitrion started in 1999 with only 5 computers.
For many years Amadeus has been constantly building a name for itself, providing its customers with the latest technology, being supported by the continuous service of its staff in its two offices.
Our customers value our services and recognise that we are the base of their companies."

- GNTO SEARCH OF NEW ADVISOR
The National Tourist Organisation of Greece is in search of a new international advisor for its support on the new hotel classification system, the "star" system.
The advisor is going to be responsible for checking the technical and functional specifications and grading criteria of the new system of classification in currently operating hotels under the sign of NTOG, as well as for classifying these hotels in categories based on the new system.
The selection of the advisor will be done according to the following procedure:
Announcement to file applications for participation in the procedure
Pre-selection of applicants
Submission of offers by applicants
Evaluation of offers and appointment of advisor
Negotiations Final selection of advisor and signing of agreement.
Candidates can file applications on Thursday, August 9, 2001, between 12:00 and 15:00 at the following address: National Tourist Organisation of Greece, 2a Amerikis st., Athens 105 64, 5th floor, conference room.
Further details at NTOG central offices or by e-mail at the address info@gnto.gr.

- ASSOSIATION OF AIRLINE REPRESENTATIVES GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The Association of Airline Representatives held its annual general assembly on June 12, in a central Athenian hotel. Basic agenda item was the election of a new board.
The new AAR board members are:
President: Dinos Frantzeskakis of Discover the World Marketing
Vice President: Dimitris Marandos of
Valkanair S.A.
General Secretary: Zoe Skrekis of
Intermodal S.A.
Treasurer: Dinos Tinios of Link
Enterprises Co. Ltd.
The remaining board members are:
Anastasios Stylianopoulos of Airborn Co. Ltd., Tasos Georgopoulos of Wayfare Aviation Services Ltd., Dimitris Lentzakis of Freightplus S.a., and Thalis Serafimidis of Theta Travel as a non-voting member.
AAR consists of 27 enterprises of airline representatives, which represent 93 out of 135 airlines in Greece. As the sole association in charge of airline issues has set the following goals:
1) To solve basic problems of Greek airports, mainly of Eleftherios Venizelos airport, in order to make them more competitive, so that Athens can become the transportation junction of Southeast Europe.
2) To broaden the activities of the members of the Association, which is related to potential trade collaborations of the branch, in order to protect the interests of these enterprises.
Airlines are the backbone of Greek tourism and are worthy of better and fairer treatment from the government and the opposition alike, especially in times so hard for Olympic Airways.

- TEAM WORK, TALENT AND DEDICATION AT ROC
Mr. Gabriel Diacakis was recently appointed Vice President Sales Of Royal Olympic Cruises.
Along with the people at Marketing Sales, they are determined to make Royal Olympic Cruises one of the best cruise lines in the world, with basic elements, team work, talent and dedication.
We at Hellenic Travelling wish them all the best on their endevour since the results will reflect on the industry, Greek Tourism and finally the National Economy.

- AMERICAN, DELTA AND UNITED AIRLINES JOIN WITH CONNEXION TO BOEING
On June 17, American, Delta and United airlines announced a new partnership with Boeing aimed at providing millions of world-wide airline passengers each year with two-way broadband connectivity to e-mail, the Internet, corporate intranets, live television and entertainment, and other services while on flight.
In a joint news conference, three of the world's leading airlines and Connexion by Boeing announced they have signed a Letter of Intent to pursue forming a new global business venture to provide broadband communications and data services to commercial aircraft. The proposed venture would be jointly owned by Boeing And the three airlines, with Boeing serving as the major shareholder with overall management responsibility.
"It will take this kind of collaboration to bring a high quality service to the airline passenger and the entire marketplace," said Scott Carson, President, Connexion by Boeing. "Each of the airlines and Boeing bring together a critical mass to help ensure success for this service with airline passengers and the global airline industry."
Upon signing definitive agreements, Boeing and the airlines each will contribute funding, certain intellectual property, and other assets necessary to carry on the business of the proposed venture. As part of the definitive agreements, the three airlines will equip a total of 1.500 aircraft with the venture's innovative, high-speed broadband Internet connectivity service, which will retain the Connexion by BoeingSM name.The timing of the first installation will be in the second half of 2002.
"This is an exciting new frontier for each of the founding airlines," said James Beer, Vice President, Corporate Development and Treasurer for American Airlines. "Our goal is to bring a high-quality service to the market - one that will materially enhance the productivity of passengers while on flight. This joint effort between the four companies is essential to ensuring we create a service that will be valued by customers.
The next steps will involve the three airlines and Boeing working together to further develop the venture's service offering and business plan, and complete the definitive agreements required to launch the new service.
"The three airlines and Boeing bring exceptional familiarity with aircraft and leading-edge space and aviation technology," said Ray Valeika, Senior Vice President - Technical Operations, Delta Air Lines. "This provides the expertise necessary to develop a quality product that is attractive to the industry as a whole."
"There currently is no service comparable to this in the market," said "Larry DeShon, Senior Vice President - Marketing for United Airlines. Each of the airlines brings an unprecedented level of knowledge about the in-flight connectivity needs of passengers. In the end it is passengers who will truly benefit from this service."
Current long-term forecasts show the world-wide commercial airplane fleet of about 14.500 jetliners growing at a rate of 4.8% a year. In the next 24 hours alone, 4.7 million people will board 41.500 flights around the world.
"The scope of the installations will allow the venture's system and service to be designed and developed for reasonable costs," said Boeing's Carson. "That's good news for both the airlines and their passengers. "Connexion by Boeing, the first truly broadband communication service for people on the move, is the market-leading initiative working to bring today's high-speed, cable-quality Internet and company intranet data services to the airborne environment. Airline passengers will soon be able to choose from a multitude of personalised real-time services including Internet and corporate intranet access, e-commerce, live television and entertainment, transmission and receipt of data, shopping, travel and destination information.
Airline operators also will benefit from in-flight access to airline and crew data not available through traditional communication channels. Additional information can be found at the Connexion by Boeing web site www.connexionbyboeing.com.
American Airlines, a subsidiary of AMR Corp., is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2001. With a fleet of 719 aircraft, American is one of the largest scheduled passenger airlines in the world and employs more than 117.000 people around the globe.
Together with its regional affiliate, American Eagle, American serves 238 cities in 51 countries with more than 4.100 daily flights. American is the only airline to offer More Room Throughout Coach. More information available at http://www.aa.com/.
Delta Air Lines' goal is to become the No.1 airline in the eyes of its customers, flying passengers and cargo from anywhere to everywhere. People choose to fly Delta more often than any other airline in the world on 5.234 flights each day to 367 cities in 64 countries on Delta, Delta Express, Delta Shuttle, Delta Connection carriers and DeltaΥs World-wide Partners. Delta is a founding member of Sky Team, a global airline alliance that gives customers extensive world-wide destinations, flights and services. For more information, one can go to http://www.delta.com/.
United Airlines offers nearly 2.300 flights a day on a network that spans the globe. United NewVentures is a wholly owned subsidiary of UAL Corp. that was created to focus the airline's Internet initiatives and investments into one company. United.com., the official Web site for United Airlines, allows passengers to research flight, schedule and fare information and purchase travel on over 500 airlines world-wide.
More information and a complete list of available services and functions can be found at http://www.united.com/.

- FESTIVAL CRUISES LAUNCHES NEW SHIP 2002
Festival cruises, the pan-European cruise company has chosen the name "European Stars" for the second of its newly-built, luxurious vessels, which are being built at the moment at the Chantiers de l' Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, France. The cruiser has 783 cabins, it has undergone all necessary tests and was delivered to the company in June.
Following the "European Vision", the other vessel of Festival Cruises, the name that was selected for our second ship shows that we are a cosmopolitan company and most of our customers come from the European Union, a policy that we support altogether commented the President of Festival Cruises, Mr. George Pavlides. It is a direct reference to the European flag and all its countries-members and we hope that our guests will feel pride and pleasure travelling on it, he added.
European Stars' is the sixth ship of the company and it is going to be launched in April 2002.
All newly-built ships of Festival Cruises are characterised by a cosmopolitan style which is evident in the names of their decks, that have been inspired from beautiful historical European cities. "European Stars" will reflect this philosophy. Meanwhile, final preparations are taking place for the launching of "European Vision", whose decks will bear the names Oxford, Venice, Kiel, Sierre, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Biarritz, Olympia, and Limassol.
Each of those two vessels has a capacity for 1566 passengers in double-bedded cabins and 132 suites with private verandas. The ships public spaces include restaurant, bars, theatres, casinos, discos, health centres, gyms, shops, conference centres, high tech equipped rooms, Internet cafes, visual reality games, special cigar smoking areas, swimming pools, miniature golf courses, golf simulation games, climbing walls, teenagers' clubs, and children's playgrounds.

- ADVANCES TICKET ISSUING AND COMMUNICATIONS AUSTRIAN AIRLINES GROUP
Starting on October 28, the beginning of the winter flight schedule, the airlines of Austrian Airlines Group, i.e. Austrian Airlines, Lauda Air, Tyrolean Airways and Rheintalflug, are going to use a unified system for ticket issuing and the common code OS for all their scheduled flights.
By the number following the code OS, passengers will easily understand which of the four airlines flies each time. Austrian AirlinesΥ flights will have a two-digit or three-digit number after OS. Lauda Air will use a four-digit number between 3000-3999. Tyrolean Airways and Rheintalflug will have flight numbers between 5000-5999 and 7000-7099 after the code OS respectively.
Wolfgang Schein of Austrian Airlines Group stated that these changes are the key to the wholly unified image of the Group, as well as to its competitiveness.
Advantages for passengers include faster and easier bookings and check-in and the use of all VIP rooms at the airports.
As regards charter flights, the policy of encoding and ticket issuing is not going to change at least for the coming winter season.
In the field of communications, since the beginning of July Austrian Airlines has started offering an advanced communication system on transatlantic flights by Airbus €330.
Passengers are now able to send written messages by fax, as well as use the individual satellite phones at their seats to send messages to mobile phones or e-mail.

- FIRST INTERNATIONAL TOURISM FORUM YUGOSLAVIA
On the initiative of the Universal Federation of Travel Agents' Associations and its Yugoslavian member association YUTA the first international tourism forum was held at Sava Congress Centre in Belgrade on June 1. The forum was preceded on May 31 by a lecture on IATTA-UFTAA training courses by UFTAA Regional General Director Boyan Manev.
The event was in line with UFTAA's efforts to assist the member associations in the south-east Europe to revive their tourism industry.
The forum was opened by the Minister of Trade, Tourism and Services, Mr. Slobodan Milosavljevic, and the newly appointed Director of the National Tourism Organisation of Serbia, Ms. Ljubica Milojevic, who was also responsible for the local arrangements.
Foreign speakers at the event were Mr. Patrice Tedjini, Head of Documentation Section at WTO on "Current tourism trends", Mr. Gert Hesselman, Chairman of Hesselman & Associates and former DRV President on "Challenges and solutions for Serbia", Dr. Miroslav Dragicevic from Horwarth & Horwarth on " way forward for countries in transition , Mr. Birger Backman, Secretary General of UFTAA on EU Package Directive and its implication on tourism to Yugoslavia , Mr. Gerhard Skoff on the Danube Tourism Commission, Prof. Todor Krestev from ICOMOS on Cultural itineraries in South-East Europe and Hungarian Minister for Tourism, Mr. Zoltan Budai, on Hungarian experiences.
The brainstorming session focused on a needed master plan for Yugoslavia, legislative measures and marketing strategies. The participants noted that Yugoslavia has to re-evaluate its tourism offer based on a careful inventory of sites and possibilities.
The forum was generally considered a success and a moral boost for the over 200 participants from the Yugoslavian travel trade.
UFTAA has previously been actively engaged in the support of rebuilding the Bulgarian travel and tourism industry.

- MESSE BERLIN VIRTUAL "LAUNCHED" INTERNET WITH OVER 2.500 EXHIBITORS
The International Tourism Exchange Berlin recently opened its Virtual Market Place portal on the Internet with over 2.500 exhibitors. As a result this market place for the industry, the world's largest trade fair for the service sector, which takes place in a physical sense every year for five days in March, is now accessible world-wide and throughout the year.
The virtual Fair has been set up to operate 24 hours a day, 365 days in the year, ensuring communication and information between visitors and exhibitors, with a concept that has been designed specifically to meet the needs of customers. Exhibitors can set up their virtual stands on the net using simple input masks. In addition to information about the company itself, each virtual stand can also be used to illustrate ten products or product innovations, with pictures and an in-depth description, list of contents or technical details.
There are a number of obvious advantages for anyone visiting the Virtual Fair site: they can establish direct contact with exhibitors by e-mail, the information bag is a function that lists the entire range of products, enabling information to be gathered and printed out, and the search engine can be used to access exhibitors from specific countries, or product information. The heading of "similar products" can be used to find comparable products and services from all of the exhibitors. None of the search engines currently available in the Internet can offer the sort of search functions for specific branches of industry that are available at the Virtual Trade Fair. For smaller companies in particular this is an ideal means of maintaining a constant presence on highly competitive markets.
Under this new Internet strategy Messe Berlin Gmbh intends to also present all its own events in a virtual form throughout the year, an objective that it expects to achieve by 2002.
"The intention is not to render traditional trade fairs superfluous. Instead, taking a real market place as the basis for the virtual equivalent, we intend to acquire new and previously unrepresented exhibitors from around the world for our existing fair trades. Those exhibitors that we have already approached are 100% convinced of the value of a year-round presentation of products, innovations and company information" said Raimund Hosch,
Chief Executive Officer of Messe Berlin Gmbh. In HoschΥs words: "We are aware that only a few trade fairs will be able to survive in the future. Our advantage is that our leading trade shows already provide the largest, real market places for their respective branches of industry. virtual market place is only of interest to visitors if it can ensure the widest possible coverage of a particular industry.
Although it has a major part to play, the Virtual Trade Fair is only one of the new elements of the integrated, overall presentation by Messe Berlin on the web. The decisive feature of the new Internet strategy is its unique combination of modular components involved in planning the presentation of a trade fair, supplemented by tools for use in everyday business dealings, which will ensure that visitors and exhibitors remain with the portal throughout the year. These tools include the very latest information about the industry, travel services and marketing consultancy functions.
For exhibitors at Berlin's own events a virtual trade fair stand is provided free of charge for the first year. However, non-exhibitors can also obtain stands to present their products, at a cost of around 16 EUROs per day.

- AEGEAN-CRONUS QUALITY FLIGHTS AT LOW PRICES
Aegean and Cronus combined their forces and offered flights to travellers both within the country and abroad, at the following prices:
One way domestic 12.900 drs. Aller retour domestic 25.800 One way international 24.900 Aller retour international 49.800
These prices were valid from June 20 until July 10 for all domestic and international flights of the common network of the two airlines and for a limited number of seats.
The collaboration of the two multi-awarded airlines, which are known for their comfort, punctuality, and high-quality service on their flights, creates new potential for development in the field of air travel. It has thus led to the creation of the largest private airline in Greece, with a fleet of 15 aircraft, 6 of which are private, that take travellers to 11 big Greek cities and 8 European cities with 120 flights daily.