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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 even the slowing COVID-19 pandemic is cutting into prospects for 2022 being a record year for tourism, on a curve to reach 19 billion euros ($18.71 billion) to surpass the 2019 levels.
Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) President Yiannis Retsos gave the news during the Ellada Meta conference in the capital, citing Bank of Greece seven-month data to July 2022, said GTP Headlines.
He said that tourism-related revenues will surpass 2019’s record 18.2 billion euros ($17.92 billion) that came from another record 33 million arrivals, more than three times the country’s population.
“We can expect revenues in the range of 18.8-19 billion euros, which is very important considering that this year’s budget predicted 80 percent of 2019 revenue,” he said.
That came after a recent Alpha Bank report which estimates that tourism revenue this year will reach 20 billion euros ($19.69 billion) that would be a bonanza for the New Democracy government putting out state aid for soaring energy costs, inflation and an election year coming in 2023.
Retsos said he also expects 2023 to be a good year for Greece despite the geopolitical turmoil, the energy crisis and inflation, which he said will limit the buying power in Greece’s main markets, mainly those in Europe, the site said.
“Greece managed to create a very strong tourist brand. We are now among the five most important tourist brands in the world and Greece is in the top three choices of potential travelers in main target markets, and especially in European markets,” he said. “This makes us optimistic.”
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.