publicly private operators of the tourism industry (SETE, POX, etc), the Regions and the Municipalities of the tourist areas for the excellent cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism and the Greek national tourism organisation over the last two years.
He stressed that “Tourism wants partnerships” in order to be able to continue in the coming years to increases in visitors and revenue.
Despite the issues with terrorism faced by all the major european markets, the huge issue of refugees, which affected the islands of the Aegean sea and the coup d’état in neighbouring Turkey, the country managed to cope with, and tourism to support the economy of the country. And that was for the sake of the coordinating role of the ministry of tourism.
For the hotel employees
On yesterday’s symbolic occupation of the building of the ministry of tourism of the union of hotel employees, ms. Kountoura said that it supports the just demands and that will work to increase jobs in tourism. Features stated that it is only for the 2016 created 50.000-70.000 new jobs in the tourism industry due to its this year’s growth in arrivals by 1 million visitors in respect of 2015.
While, it considers that the intended lengthening of the tourist season will provide many months of work the hotel employees and, more generally, in the tourism industry. Especially in the autumn, September and October were at an average occupancy of 85%, while the same trend shows that it will continue into November.
For the tourist education
End, featured the wrong closing of the coordinating institution of tourism education in Greece OTEK 2010 with the result lost huge sums of money from the EU for the area of tourism education. And announced the reopening of the schools of tour guides and the support of educational programmes of the INSTITUTE and Higher Schools of tourist professions.
E. Kountoura: “Tourism wants partnerships”
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