tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33676788295741115642012-01-30T12:12:18.977+02:00A public debate that has as objective to activate our thinking and make us realise that Tourism is nothing else but all of us. <br><br> <b>Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Mahatma Gandhi.</b>Petros Mavroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03355506780283252821noreply@blogger.comBlogger1071100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367678829574111564.post-21573018256920542952012-01-25T16:20:00.002+02:002012-01-25T16:23:03.742+02:00

The recent agreement between Hermes airports and Ryan Air for the opening of their 50th operational base in Europe has to be looked at as both a blessing and a curse. We can count the blessings as follows.- 1. Ryan air will be committed to invest a substantial amount of money in order for the operational base to become viable. 2. Ryan Air will set tourist targets and when met this means a

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I will not be sending you a festive greeting in the form of card or gift. This is not because I am in any way against the spirit of Christmas, I just prefer to use the money in a more effective manner and so bring tangible ‘cheer’ to those whose lives are blighted by abject poverty and fear. My donation as always will go to KIVA an NGO that offers people the chance to become micro-lenders for

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The UK Television Channel 4 created what they thought was an objective look at the Greek economic crisis by trying to replicate the lives of Greek workers using English men and women who pretended to ‘Go Greek for a Week’. The result was a less than inspiring glimpse behind the somewhat smug and obviously negative mind set of the producers of this so called reality programme.In what can only be

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No,  we are not talking about a travel agent or a hotelier in Greece. We are talking about the Greek of Cypriot origin film director Micheal Kakogiannis. Kakogiannis’ 8th film “Zorba the Greek” created not only a “cultural phenomenon that transcended filmmaking” (according to the New York Times), but it was the major image builder for the Greek character and culture in the fifties. Zorba the

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Cyprus is the safest place to swim in Europe. According to the European Commission, the Cypriot seawater is has the best water quality among the 27 member states. The report edited by the European Environment Agency evaluates Cyprus with 100%. Despite that the water quality in Europe has fallen a bit from 2009 to 2010, Cyprus scores first. So if you are a sea lover you have just found your

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Cyprus Airways possible bankruptcy is probably the biggest scandal in the recent history of Cyprus and defiantly the biggest in the history of Cyprus tourism as an industry. The airline has been for years now the easy vote tank for all political parties in Cyprus. The airline was run by incompetent political boards of directors for many years whose only worry was how to jump from the darkness

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If you are looking for a good steak in Pafos you need to contact Genesis Steak House. Jack Koufetas (Iakovos) has been for the last 30 years serving the best steaks you ever tried. Tradition and homemade food in combination with the “old” hospitality habits will make dinner unforgettable. I strongly recommend a rare pepper steak served with the fresh organic veggies picked from Jack’s garden,

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Οnce upon a time there was a small country in the Mediterranean called republic of Cyprus. This country thought that it was the superpower and therefore created two huge airlines to fly its corrupteted politicians and their followers for holidays, business and pleasure. Well then the dream went down the drain; suddenly the global financial crisis uncovered the corruption. Left, right, centre and

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We are in Limassol having a great training seminar with the middle management team of one of the most important 5 star hotels of the town and of Cyprus. The Grand Resort Limassol, formerly known as Hawaii Grand Resort is at this moment closed for minor refurbishment. The ownership and the management of the hotel decided to sign up the staff of the hotel to the Training program supplied by the

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2010 has been a hard year for many people and businesses. Many of the people that would normally would get this message are without a job. Many work under very tough financial conditions, others are struggling to keep their business above the “sea level”.  Avantless this year will not send any paper post cards and will give no giveaways and instead we have created a team in KIVA, a team where we

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According to valid unofficial information, Cyprus Airways failed to agree with tour operators from St. Petersburg in Russia to take over the flights of the bankrupt Eurocypria airlines. Cyprus airways and the Russian stakeholders did not agree on the prices the airline asked and therefore the negotiations have failed.  This is huge hit towards the bleeding Cypriot Tourism industry since it lets

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Some time last week the phone rang and the Marketing Manager of the leading travel portal in Cyprus was on the other side of the cable. Andreas Lazarou from Aeolos travel, owners of www.bookcyprus.com has asked me if I could give a seminar to the team of Aeolos and Bookcyprus in Protaras over the weekend. I have gladly accepted the challenge, but I could never think that that weekend would have

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The debate about the ROI in implementing Social Media in a business has been going on for quite a long time now. While experts and not so experts struggle to prove that Social Media can make money the different industry leaders do not seen so convinced. I have been intensively working in the world of Social Media in the travel industry for the last two years and I can assure you that it is a

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The experience of Almyra hotel in Pafos has been one of those experiences your wife will always remember. The comfort of its rooms, the tranquility of its gardens and its location give you the reason to visit Pafos this winter 2010. The AlmyraSpa comes to complete the trip, "homenage" to the body and soul ended with a walk by the beach.

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There are very few people in the world that are able to make a nation proud. Manos Hadjidakis, the composer of emotions, love and heard is the modern Socrates. If Socrates is the Philosopher who turned Philosophy to what is today, Manos Hadjidakis is the man who with his music made us all believe that we have lots to offer to the civilisation still. His songs are full of humbleness, his

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The board of directors of the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) took a decision to boycott the only international Opera festival of Cyprus. The CTO has agreed to be the main sponsor for the Opera in Pafos for the last 11 years. The last Opera Festival that took place last September 2010 it was probably the most successful cultural event ever for the town of Paphos but also for Cyprus as country.

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Today, the Spanish ministry of Tourism has announced that the summer season closed with an increase of 4% in foreign tourism arrivals and overnights. Tourism represents 10% of the Spanish GDP and the news presenter of TVE named it “OUR TOURISM”. Now, here in the all year round island, where love is in the air, the Minister announced an increase of 0,7% from last year, (only on arrivals, no data

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Triumph of Cyprus Tourism, the Minister of Trade industry and Tourism announces an increase of 0.7%. In real numbers Cyprus has received 9617 (nine thousand six hundred and seventeen) more visitors for the same period of January until August, last year (2009). Cyprus tourism has suffered a lot from the economic crisis basically due to the extraordinary well established tourism policy that

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Today, 2nd of September 2010, I have received the update in my email inbox from the Les Roches Alumni website. As always I wend through the email and at bottom of it I saw the announcement that Mr. Peter Schlatter has passed away last June the 6th at the age of 62. In 1992 when I first arrived in Bluche after serving my military service in Cyprus and I had the first contact with the school and

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Today I had a short 20 minute drive to Lemona to visit my good friend Angelos Tsaggarides in his winery. The heat was unbearable in Pafos by the sea so I thought I drive to the hills and by the way see how the harvesting goes. When I arrived at the winery Angelos as usual opened a bottle of wine to “celebrate” the occasion. This time he opened a bottle of white wine, last years white he said,

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The 16th of August 1960, Archbishop Makarios III representing the Greek Cypriots and Dr. Fazil Küçük representing the Turkish Cypriots have signed the independence of Cyprus from the British Empire. Since then the history of Cyprus has not been very easy.  Nevertheless, tourism has grown spectacularly basically due to private initiative of the then young tourism entrepreneurs. People like Louis

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The President of the board of directors of Cyprus Airways, Kikis Lazarides,  presented his resignation to the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Demetris Christofias. Mr Lazarides was assigned to this position by the recently deceased last president Tasos Papadopoulos back in 2004. Everything seems to point that Lazarides has found hard core reactions in both inside and outside the company

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Nasa astronaut Soichi Noguchi and his colleagues are giving us for the last months wonderful images of the Earth. Today he was generous with Cyprus. He took a picture of our island and published it on his twitter. http://twitter.com/Astro_Soichi This post is to thank @Astro_Soichi for his courtesy and invite him to join us in Cyprus this Summer 2010  when he lands back to Earth.

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For the past few years the local market gained more weight for the Cypriot hotel occupancies. Cypriots travel abroad a lot but also stay in Cyprus a lot. According to Cyprus tourism Organisation the local market produces approximately 1,500,000 (one and a half million) bed nights to the Cypriot hotels and accommodation establishments. This converts Cypriots to the 2nd biggest tourism market for

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Viewing today the video on VTV Channel with the interview of Dr. Chris Anderson from Cornell University , I have realised that many of the indications he mentions could be applied to Cyprus as well. Of course we need to have in mind that the so called dot com brands in Cyprus do not really exist. Cyprus tourism industry is formed mainly by independent hotels that do not belong to international

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Whatever TV station you have on, whatever radio station you listen, whatever digital or paper newspaper you read, the news are the same. “Greece is in deep financial problems and this is due to the Greeks, the Greek way of thinking, the Greeks lied to the EU and so on and so forth”. I am sorry Ladies and Gentlemen, but not all the Greeks are the same. Once, with a friend from Turkey at the

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Visit Cyprus this summer will be the choice of many Europeans. Amongst them the Spanish or other nationalities that leave in Spain. The campaigns in the Spanish football pitches and especially at those games that will define the Spanish Liga have managed to create awareness about the Cyprus. If you live in Spain and you would like to discover the other end of the Mediterranean it is highly

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The poll for Cyprus Tourism has closed. My opinion was different but it seems that there are some optimists. The result is absolutely clear,  61% of the votes remark that current Tourism strategy is not being well graded, overwhelmingly   I would say 5 to 1. Feel free to comment, the results are here below.  The survey was conducted online with IP filter. Feel free to comment 

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Can hotels get out of the crisis? Well this crisis is not only about hotels its about all tourism. The reality is very hard for those millions of unemployed people of tourism worldwide. Well we cannot get out of crisis if we continue firing 50% of our human assets; we cannot get out of crisis if we keep reducing the only recourse that makes our industry o be personal. If hotels do not stop

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Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air are very close signing an agreement that will create the new Greek airline. The 2 companies will very soon announce their merge and the new airline will be called Olympic. The new company will have a structure where the 2 strong men of the two companies will have equal shares, Vasilakis  from Aegean and Vgenopoulos from  Olympic Air (Marfin Group) and the rest of

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This post is inspired on the Mashable post about Social Media and how it can drive revenue to airlines and hotels. Therefore I would like to thank Shashank Nigam, its writer for the inspiration. As Shashank very accurately says Social media is no longer the “new” thing, especially for airlines. Looking at JetBlue or Lufthansa we understand that social Media is part of their daily routine.

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Holiday Money Report, British Post compares prices to the destinations British tourists usually travel. The 2009 report makes interesting points concerning the position of destinations, amongst them Cyprus, in the UK travel market. We took some points and added our comment and opinion. • Bulgaria’s cheap packages and low living costs made it popular during the noughties – but another Balkan

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This Blog on the 24th of January 2010 has already given an opinion what could have happen to the tourists that visit  the so called “North Cyprus” and stay in hotels there. Our predictions were that the owners of hotels could take to court tourists that were accommodated in illegally occupied hotels. The case Apostolides Vs Orams opens the gates to the legal owner to take to court the users of

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In the next 5- 8 years the majority of hotel consumers will be 24hrs a day connected to the internet via a mobile device. An iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry or whatever other gadget that will appear in the market will be in the pocket of all the customers of a hotel. Those gadgets already have a connection to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and many other Social Media. Hotels have spend fortunes to create

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This is what is going to be the impact of the decision of the UK Appeal court in the case Apostolides Vs Orams in tourism in Cyprus, and more concrete, in the occupied side of Cyprus, the so called "North Cyprus" Form this blog's point of view this legal battle puts back in the right track the issues of Tourism in the occupied by Turkish troops part of Cyprus. A bit of history: Cypriot

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When it comes to Tourism marketing I feel that we are still working like the old times. Advertising and Marketing are defiantly two aspects of tourism where most budgets are spent. We all talk about niche markets, personalized marketing, consumer analysis, customer relationships, products thought for the customer, destinations made to relax customers, blah blah and more blah customer blah….

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I have recently had a very nice chat with an expert in Tourism who is very sensitive to how sustainable is the tourism activity. Someone who I respect very much and who I strongly believe his views are valid and very reasonable. Views I share and I find extremely easy to understand and follow. During our relaxed chat I have realised that he has been around in Cyprus and at one point he was

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The unfortunate black-out of the runways in Larnaca Airport has created in my opinion too much noise. Hermes Airports has proven to be an efficient and very responsible company delivering without one day of delay 2 brand new airports for Cyprus according to the planed and signed schedule. Hermes airports is the only company who made Cypriots proud the last years. The international airports of

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Instead of wishing for your wishes to come true, Make wishes true!!! Every 9 seconds someone gets closer to making their wishes a reality. Onward looking to 2010, optimism and courage will be required, and at avantless we wanted to anticipate 2010 contributing with a message of hope for those who have made a personal decision to change their life through entrepreneurship and

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I hate predicting bad news. Two months ago my intuition and the market made me think that Allbury Travel group was going to go down the drain taking with them customers and suppliers and so I published it here The websites of the group are already down and they stop selling those destinations the group used to have in its portfolio. The hotels in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus etc. are getting nervous,

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When we are looking for a place for business meetings most of the times we think of business environment. Cyprus meetings industry offers a unique scenery for business meetings. Away from the tight corporate environment close to the splendid Mediterranean sea and the green Mediterranean forest, away from high traffic streets and far from stressful situations. During the EIBTM 2009 in Barcelona,

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The question raised here is if in Cyprus we have any kind of plan. It is clear that the answer is NO. This is very easy to confirm just by asking people of any political colour, of any economical power; all of them will tell you that we have actually never have had a plan. Cyprus’ economy is small, conservative, monopolist and overprotective. For those reasons we have been rebuked many times by

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Are you a hotelier? Do you own a small and friendly resort or city hotel anywhere in the world? Are you tired of unpaid tour operator invoices?  I am sure you will be very happy to increase your return business. Your best customers are filed in those old file boxes, all those registration cards are a gold mine.  You just have to use your imagination and the Social Media sphere and results will

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Every industry needs to have a leader to follow. In tourism for the past 100 years we have had examples of people who took the leadership and given guidelines for the rest to follow. Conrad Hilton (Hilton Hotels) , Thomas Cook , Aristotele Onasis (Olympic Airways)  and others have shown the way to today?s tourism multinational companies. Nowadays leading in tourism does not mean only taking

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It seems that Expedia understood that a hotel chain is sovereign.  The negotiations between Expedia and Choice produced an agreement the leaves Expedia without last room availability. This means that Choice Hotel members have now the choice to work with the 80 portals of Expedia under conditons that they can manage and support. I hope that this agreement can be respected and transported to other

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Inspired on the article of David Armano published by on the blog of Harvard Business Publishing I would like to try to reflect  David’s thoughts and reflexions on the tourism sector. It is very true that in 2009 we saw exponential growth of social media. According to Nielsen Online, Twitter alone grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique

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The internet has been converted into the best friend of the companies and other organisations trying to mitigate the side effects of the financial crisis.  An increase is observed on the issues of online Marketing especially in the field of tourism. The interest of large Cypriot tourist companies to ensure valid information and to study the new trends which are daily presented in the internet

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I would like to thank Max Starkov for bringing up the courageous decision of Choice hotels to leave the conversations with Expedia. Yes finally we have a big player in accommodation supply to stand up and protest actively against the “Market Dictatorship” of a portal that acts as hotel rooms online are of its property. We keep experiencing this same authoritarian approach by wholesalers, even

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The travel organisation the is led by Andreas Drakou and his collaborators will not support the pressure and will announce its bankruptcy just before Christmas, This is what we think since the payments for last summer’s accommodation and services in Cyprus are paid with great delays and after huge pressures from the stakeholders. Allbury Travel  that took over all Libra Holidays operations 2

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The internet has become the first ally of Tourism Companies to fight Crisis. In the last months there is an increased interest from Cypriot travel companies to get trained on E-Marketing. This interest is mainly visible among the big travel related companies who are keen to have their top level marketers trained to face the new challenges using The Online as  Major Business tool. From our

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Lately we hear on the news that the measures the Cyprus government adopted to boost tourism will continue for the year 2010. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism through the Cyprus Tourism Organization spends millions of Euros on “bonus plans” to the Tour Operators from almost all over the world (at least all the markets they consider primary) who manage to land tourist in Larnaca(LCA

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I would like to thank all the participants who attended our seminar today Tuesday the 15th of September at the Ajax Hotel in Limassol. Personally I have enjoyed the active participation and the exchange of views on how the Cypriot Hotelier and the incoming agent could face the changes of the global market online. Special thanks to our hosts , Ajax Hotel, for the great hospitality the

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Libra Accommodations CY LTD, the company that signed accommodation contacts with Cypriot Hoteliers was operating illegally in Cyprus. After the court case P.C Mavros Vs Libra in Cyprus (Paphos District Court (case number 3806/07) dated 26 Nov. 2008 9 the vale was uncovered. According to the Cypriot Registrar of Companies, Libra Accommodations (CY) LTD with Directors among others Mr. Adreas

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According to the latest research made by Nielsen, Internet is the favourite means of Chinese when searching for tourist information in their effort to choose their holiday destination.According always to Nielsen, 61% of the Chinese who travelled for leisure have searched the basic information for their destination on the web and 48% of those have consulted interactive websites like Rating Sites,

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In their effort to find niche markets, the tourist destinations have finally realised that disabled people constitute an advanced market with advanced needs and lot of perspectives; a market that belongs among the most loyal groups of clients. Let’s not forget that Europe is getting older and the obligations of the countries members of the European Union (http://ec.europa.eu/information_society

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Have we invented everything on the internet ?Sometimes it seems that innovation on the internet is either impossible or very expensive. Well I must say that the young MBA Greek student at Kingston University UK has proven us that things can be neither expensive nor impossible. Spyros Pyrgiotis has created www.thetextpage.com looking at it as a cheap way of advertising. Pay per character model, a

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The internet is full of special offers from hotels that sell their rooms at very low prices especially through portals. The big guys in the market, Expedia, Booking.com, Last Minute and so many others are squeezing the hotels and especially the independent hotels to give low, very low prices to the visitors of those portals. The crisis is the perfect excuse to make more money for the portals. The

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A “war” against time sharing has started the last few days by the Municipalities and the Tourism professionals. It is a fact that this issue is becoming a “threat” for the tourists who, as they get away from the “All Inclusive Packages”, run into the sales people of the time sharing.I really do not understand why in Cyprus we “hide behind our finger”. Isn’t it obvious that those selling time

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In the eighties Pafos was written on the international airport map with its PFO airport. Then the society in Cyprus was divided. Was Paphos was big enough to host an international airport? The area was basically abandoned by the Cypriot State since the connection between Limassol (Lemesos) and Pafos was made by a narrow curvy and dangerous road and there was indication that the high way was soon

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The crisis is not anymore a ghost, it is a reality especially for the small and medium tourist entrepreneur, Cyprus is defiantly not the exemption, despite that the minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism Mr. Antonis Paschalides was assuring the Hoteliers and Travel industry that we would only have a 10% decrease the reality is completely different. The best numbers talk about a 20% decrease in

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Sybelio, the non commissionable online booking system built in Spain has the capability to publish content on Social Media. The hotel can create its Special Offers and let its followers know instantly on all Social Media. Sybelio can know boost direst sales of hotels, hotel chains, incoming agents and any other accommodation facilities your company may have.Sybelio online booking systemView more

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The University of Seville and Sybelio Online sign a collaboration agreement forthe tourism degree. The University of Seville and Sybelio have signed a collaboration agreement so that students of tourism learn and put into practice on line commerce using Sybelio, one of the most comprehensive online booking engines that exist in the tourism market and the use of which, completely configurable,

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Many of us who defend the disintermediation of tourism and that the traditional tour operators had no place in the tourism market as intermediates, it is now proven that we are wrong. We are wrong since customers need a Big Guy to place their complaints. Here are some examples of REAL customer complaints. This was sent from a Major UK Tour Operator - listing some of the British guests'

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Cyprus with the two Hotel Associations, Pasyxe (www.cyprushotelassociation.org) and Stek (www.acte.com.cy )is another tourist destination where the two Associations have no presence concerning online Sales & Marketing. Their static websites which promote the activities and objectives are definitely not adequate for the development of any online strategy.The financial dependence of the members of

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The Internet has become the means of attraction of tourists for many “inexistent” Tourist Destinations worldwide. Places like New Zealand, Slovakia, Montenegro or regions such as Murcia or Extremadura in Spain almost did not “exist” before the Internet Revolution. They took very seriously their online potential and invested time and money on their online actions and strategies. Here below I try

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Hoteliers in Cyprus have finally received payments for the year 2008. Debts Libra Holidays created in 2008 are now, after a year, being paid by the new owners of Libra.In spring 2008 Vasilis and Aimon, two directors , from the central offices of Libra in the UK were touring Cyprus agreeing with hoteliers the final debts for the season 2008. Various hoteliers have got their money (if not all a big

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Open publication - Free publishing - More polis camping Paphos is probably the area of Cyprus with more tradition in what we call Quality Tourism, a term I hate using since there is not such a thing as Quality Barometer. Tourism is an activity that obtains quality when the end user obtains an experience that gives him or her personal satisfaction, so there is no way to measure this.

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For the last two week we have been hearing different and many complaints about the way Cyprus Tourism is facing the financial crisis.1. The government blames the hoteliers for not lowering prices after the state spent 52 million Euros in measures of Tourism Support.Well 52 million is peanuts Mr. Minister. You should be ashamed mentioning them. Make numbers and see how much is per bed and these

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I would like to thank Sigma TV that last night brought to the screens of the Cypriots what this company (Avantless) has been saying since the 11th of April 2009.The amazing thing is that none of the Hotel Associations or anyone sitting around the discussion table last night (Thursday 11th June) during the show called 60 minutes is an active user of the internet, none of the people who was there

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Once upon a time there was a country in the Mediterranean where you could swim in crystal waters, where you could walk in its green fields, where you could taste the real taste of its veggies, where you could get better water from the taps than from the bottles, where you could pickup mushrooms on its mountains and valleys, where you could meet foxes in its forests, where you could watch eagles

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Inspired in the article of Mark Seall published on the Travolution blog I made a small study of how the Travel Sector of Cyprus is cooping with the evolution the internet took after 2006.Web 2.0 is a term that whoever works with the net knows that basically means online human relationships. In other words the internet is not a source of information but a place to share experiences, opinions and

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Cyprus those days celebrate one of the oldest ever traditions of the country. Kataklysmos, is the water Festival that commemorates the Biblical flood by which God destroyed all living creatures on earth. The festivals take place at the coastal towns of the island.Larnaca has a long tradition in this festival and the town hall prepared a very attractive, as they say, programme of the festival. A

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According to Yahoo 30% of the British surf on the net when they are in the loo. Yes 30% of the British consumers actually use their blackberries, iphones etc when they sit on the toilet. This is defiantly a huge challenge for the tourism world. While using the loo usually is a relaxing moment and it can be a crucial moment when it comes to decision making. This can sound weird but I am sure that

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Forty eight million (48,000,000) Chinese travelled outside Chine last year . This is the data the minister of Tourism of Cyprus announced on the Cypriot radio stations. During his trip to China, Mr. Antonis Paschalides had as objective of reinforcing the trade and tourism links between the Asian Goliath and the Mediterranean David.During a morning programme of a local radio (if a recall well was

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Many times we think that hotel restaurants cater only tasteless buffets for mass tourism. I must admit, that this was the perception I had and the experience I gained after many years of working in the industry. This was until I stepped in the Bacco Restaurant in the Elysium hotel in Pafos.I was not expecting to have such a fine Italian dinner in Cyprus. I am a big pasta fun, I worked in Italian

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When we talk about online marketing most of us think of IT (Information Technology), well this is a very wrong idea. IT people are very good in applying technologies and give them to us, to the operations people to use them.When it comes to the internet, technologies are just tools, tools we have in our hands as operations to use them. We need to be trained but not on the use of technologies but

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In times of global crisis and global markets someone will think that the title of this post anachronic or even stupid. Well I think is neither.In times of global crisis the first thing we need to do is to have solidarity with the ones more affected and definitely reaching the 3 world countries is much harder than doing something for our neighbours.Now the saying Think globally and act locally

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Cyprus Short Escapes - See Cyprus View more presentations from ShortEscapes.

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Four years after the Helios Airways disaster 4 directors of the company are now prosecuted. Andreas Drakou President of Helios (also heavily involved in the Libra Holidays fraud), Demetris Pantazis Managing Director of the Airline, Giorgos Kikkidis, director for flights and Ianko Stoimenov chief pilot and training director. The four of them are facing 1.190 accusations each. Here the question is

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The case of Apostolides Vs Orams in the European Court of Justice is not only a human rights victory, is not only a victory of the Right over the Wrong is at the same time the most important injection if dignity and pride the Cypriots got after 1955. Meletis Apostolides has given back to all those who lost their houses and land in 1974 war (being those Greek – Cypriots or Turkish Cypriots) the

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The web page of Paphos Festival, the official web site of the festival is promoting “Lakme by Leo Delibes” and on the reservation form the web has on the bottom left you they are asking to the visitor of the web to enter personal data (all of them obligatory) and the data is not protected by secure server. Among this data is the Credit Card details.What does it mean in simple words this

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I must admit that my weakness is good food. I cannot resist to the invitation that promises new taste experiences. Last night I accompanied my sister and her husband to probably the best restaurant in Cyprus.In my life I have had the luck to work with great chefs. I had the luck to taste new tastes that made me feel what we call a gastronomic orgasm. Last night I had a very well prepared beef

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I must say that every day that passes I am very happy with the town hall of Paphos (Cyprus) and especially with the mayor and the council of the town.Their capability to govern the town is amazing. I admire the fact that they really look after our touristic attractions and ancient monuments in a monumental way.Pafos has a landmark, its lighthouse. All of us who live here have admired amazing

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A new report is out and is indicating that the main tour operators that operate in Cyprus have an increase on their online platforms.• In the year to September 2008, 33% of TUI UK's mainstream business came from online, making it the tour operator's biggest sales channel.• Thomas Cook's recently launched e-commerce platform, Starfish, is helping increase conversion rates on thomascook.com by more

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Last week I had the opportunity to meet with 2 graphic reporters of very well known German tourist magazine who were in Cyprus to make pictures and write about things you can do in Cyprus and especially things related to the richness of archaeology we have.It was really disappointing to hear that their impression about our archaeology was really poor and really negative. I was not surprised since

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On Friday the 10th of April 2009 I made a survey to 12 hotels in Paphos, Limassol, Agia Napa and Troodos in order to find out how Cypriots book their weekend holidays. The result of this mini survey is: 80% make there bookings online10% book over the phone 10% with travel agents Now the Cypriots who use the internet prefer www.bookcyprus.com , www.booking.com and www.expedia.co.uk . This would

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Social media is changing the world of Tourism. This is something we all know and we all experienced during emergence2009. Trip Advisor is probably the place where most of us, as hoteliers go to see how our hotel is rated. Now Trip Advisor also has another face, the search by key word face. If you search Filthy Hotels in Cyprus on Google or even worse search Filthy Hotels on Trip Advisor we see

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Our friend Richard Sedley on his Twitter today was sending us on an article on the web of E-Consultancy about what importance brands should show about social media comments . A very interesting article that I read with great interest and inspired me to cruise on Trip Advisor and randomly check some hotels in Cyprus and Greece.Amathus in Rhodes and Coral Beach in Pafos. Both hotels have

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After several conversations with hoteliers in Cyprus and Greece I realised that Libra Holidays Group, also known as Alburry Travel Group has literally sent to bankruptcy lots of hotels and their families. This is well known but what was not that known is that the same situation happens in Turkey and Egypt. After some investigation I found out that Mr. Adreas Drakou and his environment managed to

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The Cypriot Tourist Industry has a false opinion about the capabilities of the Cyprus Tourism Organisation. Blaming the CTO is very easy. People like Mr. Noel Josephides, Managing Director of Sunvil Holidays and Chairman of the Association of Greek Cypriot Travel Agents (UK), took the CTO to task for its bureaucracy and lack of responsiveness.I would give an advice to the Greek Cypriots Travel

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Semantic web, Web 2.0, collaborative marketing.… All these sound Chinese to most of us in the travel world. When your job has been going to the airport every week to check the arrival list “your” Tour Operator sent you and contrast it with the actual arrivals : then make sure, all got their luggage, their visas, their folder with the information and they are all the transfer bus heading for the

Petros Mavroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03355506780283252821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367678829574111564.post-63198724970145442362009-03-23T18:36:00.002+02:002009-03-23T18:53:08.236+02:00

Cyprus Airways is back to Paphos International Airport. I would like to thank the company that made 2nd thoughts to give to the inhabitants of Paphos and Limassol the opportunity to leave their small towns and fly to Athens from the small new and unimportant Paphos International Airport (PFO).This decision also has more benefits. We now have 4 flights a week to Athens. One by Cyprus Airways and

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The Cyprus Tourism Organisation is preparing full speed for the up coming IMEX 2009 in Frankfurt. Cyprus is a great place for meetings of all kinds. The island offers a variety of Hotels that have all sizes of Meeting facilities with very good technological infrastructure to meet the needs of all kinds of meetings. The small distances and the great climate, especially now when rain came back

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I was born in Paphos, by the fishing harbour in 1972. I am one of those citizens of Paphos that every Saturday afternoon I used to go for a walk with my friends to the sea front and try to impress the girls on the promenade, chat with them and see if they would accept an invitation for an ice cream.We had a place to sit along the sea front. A bench built all along the front that apart from being

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Travel companies should hold their nerve and not panic into cutting prices too soon.Well mention that to Thomas Cook and Thomson who came to the annual meeting of the Cypriot hoteliers asking for 20% less on the already contacted rates. That’s the advice from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, based on the results of a poll of 2,000 British consumers.Mr. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, remember you were at

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They forgot to say that the land where the hotels they mention belongs to families that were violently displaced from their homes 35 years ago. They forget to mention that the EU and UK courts have many times dictated sentences against Turkey for not letting Greeks Cypriots to use their land, they forget to mention that in order to have hotels there we are today making the funerals of 3 small

Petros Mavroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03355506780283252821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367678829574111564.post-82222190693336896032009-03-07T19:31:00.003+02:002009-03-07T19:33:13.686+02:00

All of us who remember how we used to go to the Travel Agent of our town to buy a ticket should also remember the blue Sabre or Amadeus screen where the lady who worked there used to type in those complex codes. Well whatever this lady could do on her screen we can now do it from home. All, or almost all state owned (or ex state owned airlines – including Cyprus Airways) have now a web site where

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Cyprus Airways made finally the big step. They confront the crisis by letting customers without flights!!! They have unilaterally and without any notice cancelled the only flight from Pafos Airport to Athens. What that is actually mean. It means that all the Cypriots who live in the area of Paphos including Limassol (more than 200,000) in order to fly to Athens need to go to Larnaca Airport.

Petros Mavroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03355506780283252821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367678829574111564.post-42437891865210216272009-02-20T18:44:00.006+02:002009-03-07T19:11:21.408+02:00

I must say that the 18th and the 19th of February have been the most intense days of my life after the birth of my twins.I have had the privilege to share conference panel with the most distinguished e-Marketing specialists in the world. Dr. Natasa Christodoulides, Gerd Leonhard, Richard Sedley, Ged Carroll, Andrew Gordon, John Horsley, Theodore Koumelis and the statistics brain of the Cyprus

Petros Mavroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03355506780283252821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367678829574111564.post-12305554843924254052009-02-13T23:27:00.008+02:002009-03-07T19:12:41.127+02:00

The annual conference of the Cyprus Hotel Association was this year really interesting.We had the opportunity to hear how Thomas Cook and Thomson Holidays - TUI Group asked publicly the hoteliers of Cyprus to lower their prices even more so those two companies would be able to help the Cypriot Hotelier. Well I think is time to see reality. Thomas Cook and TUI Group are profitable organisations

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