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Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-09-30
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[01] Sea cruise, yachting to grow further in 2012
[02] PM to meet with French president in Paris on Fri.
[01] Sea cruise, yachting to grow further in 2012
AMNA/Culture & Tourism Deputy Minister George Nikitiadis on Thursday
expressed his confidence that sea cruise and yachting will grow further
next year.
Addressing a conference on “Shipping Today & Tomorrow -International
Developments, Trends and Investments in the Greek and International
Shipping-Tourism Market”, Nikitiadis said Greece already holds a
significant share of the European sea cruise market , reaching the top
in 2009 and predicted that Greece will resume this position soon as the
government was rapidly implementing a sea tourism development plan. The
Greek minister stressed that establishing Greece as a home port for
sea cruise could add up to 4.0 pct of the country’s Gross Domestic
Product. Nikitiadis said that demand for sea cruise grew by 12 pct on
average in the last five years and stressed that Greece could benefit
from this trend, although he noted that sea cruise revenues lagged
behind the growth rate in the sector.amna
Greek revenues from sea cruise was 4.3 pct of total European revenues,
when its share in the market was 20.9 pct. Revenues fell to 4.0 pct of
total European revenues in 2010.
[02] PM to meet with French president in Paris on Fri.
AMNA/ Greek prime minister George Papandreou will make a 'lightning'
visit to Paris on Friday to meet with French president Nicolas Sarkozy,
according to sources on Thursday.
The same sources said that Papandreou will fly to the French capital
from Poland, where he is due later Thursday to take part in the Eastern
Partnership summit of the EU member states and the countries of the
Eurasian cooperation, which includes the former Soviet republics
in Warsaw
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