Attica Bank – Pangretia Bank: Opening of the first five star hotel in Chios

It was inaugurated on Saturday, September 14, “Pearl Island”, the island’s first luxury five-star hotel unit, according to today’s (17.9.2024) announcement. The project was carried out through the financing of the former Pangretian Bank, which believed from the first moment in the ambitious project, which strengthens Chios’s footprint on the international tourist map. The opening ceremony was held in the presence of His Eminence Metropolitan of Chios, Psaras and Wines, Mr.Marcos, MP of the ND and former Minister of Citizen Protection, Mr. Notis Mitarakis, the Executive Director of Attica Bank, Mr. Antonis Bartholomew, and the businessman Mr.Marcellou Callimasia, to whom the hotel unit belongs. They also gave representatives of the island’s business and shipping life. The Executive Advisor of Attica Bank, Mr. Antonis Bartholomew, during the opening ceremony noted among others: “The new hotel unit covers an existing need that Chios had to develop its tourist product through providing standards of high hospitality. I want to assure you that as the Pangrete Bank supported the private initiative by funding this project, the new bank created after the merger with Attica Bank and is now the 5th banking pillar in the country, with its strong capital base, will continue to be on the side of entrepreneurship on the island, believing its enormous potential for growth and economic progress.”