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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – Not wanting to be complacent after a run of consecutive tourism seasons, the The Greek National Tourism Organization is already early in the new year putting together an ad campaign for early booking and show off the country as a year-round destination.
GNTO General Secretary Dimitris Frangakis said 70 percent of the campaign will use social media and digital tools and especially target Europe, the US and Canada, said Kathimerini.
The GNTO said it will take part in 47 international tourism fairs this year, nearly one ecery week, and has renovated its presentation facilities with Greece becoming a hot spot in recent years, especially for celebrities and the super-rich.
Grigoris Tasios, President of the Hellenic Hoteliers Federation said he hoped that 2020 “will be a year that will at least give us the same figures as last year,” as Greece is facing more competition from other traditional rivals such as Turkey and Egypt that people had shiwed away from because terrorism and unrest there.
“We are interested in how the country will fare in general, moving away from the sun-and-sea model,” he said, referring to past campaigns that emphasized summer, the islands and beaches that has now expanded to a number of new areas, such as golf, hiking, winter destinations and even medical tourism.
He said, “It will take plenty more work,” and said he’s also hoping for “peace and quiet in our country for 2020, and that the government sees us as a first priority, because tourism has been of great help to the country.”
“Our objective is to achieve a much greater increase in tourism revenues,” said Tourism Minister Haris Theocharis. Referring to the extension of the tourism season, he said, “Our country is 80 percent mountains, which many people abroad do not know, and we should promote that.”
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.