Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-03-17
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[01] Greece, Russia: Tourism cooperation
[01] Greece, Russia: Tourism cooperation
MOSCOW (ANA-MPA/Th. Avgerinos) - Tourism Development Minister Aris
Spiliotopoulos and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Strzhalkovsky
agreed during their meeting here over the weekend to the preparation
soon of a memorandum on tourism cooperation between Greece and
Russia, with emphasis being placed on Russian investments in the
Greek tourism industry and on Greek investments in the construction
of marinas along the Black Sea coastline and the building of ships
and pleasure boats.
"We agreed to run with specific working groups to enable us to have
over a short period of time a cooperation memorandum that will cover
issues related to Greek investments in Russia and to Russian
investments in the tourism sector in Greece, with the further
strengthening of tourist and investing movement towards Greece,"
Spiliotopoulos said at the end of his talks.
The Russian side requested Greek assistance and know-how for the
modernisation of the Russian river boat and cruiseship fleet, a
branch that is very developed as a form of tourist entertainment in
Russia.
Spiliotopoulos assured that every possible cooperation in this
sector will be encouraged as well and announced that Russia will be
participating again in the Philoxenia exhibition in Thessaloniki,
while Greece will be the theme country next year in Moscow's
blossoming Intourmarket tourism exhibition, which is held under the
auspices and backing of the Russian government.
Spiliotopoulos left for Saint Petersburg on Sunday evening, where he
will be inaugurating a Greek tourism poster exhibition on Monday,
while on Tuesday he will be giving a lecture at the University's
Greek department and meeting the city's governor and former
ambassador in Athens Valentina Matvienko.
Caption: Greek Tourism Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos (L) shakes hands
with Russian Tourism Minister Vladimir Strzhalkovsky in Moscow on
Sunday 16 March 2008 . ANA-MPA/ STR
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