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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-08-18
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[01] Sailers Mantis-Kagialis win bronze in Rio's 470 medal race
[02] Hoteliers in eastern Aegean islands cut prices to attract Greek
tourists
[01] Sailers Mantis-Kagialis win bronze in Rio's 470 medal race
Greek sailing duo Panagiotis Mantis and Pavlos Kagialis won the
bronze medal in the men's 470 medal race in Marina da Gloria, Brazil,
on Thursday.
The team collected 58 points and finished behind Croatia's Sime Fantela
and Igor Marenic who won gold and Australia's Mathew Belcher and Will
Ryan who came in second.
This is the eighth medal in the history of Greek sailing and the second
in the 470, after the goild medal won by Sofia Bekatorou and Emilia
Tsoulfa in the 2004 Athens Olympics.
[02] Hoteliers in eastern Aegean islands cut prices to attract Greek
tourists
Hoteliers in Samos, Lesvos, Chios, Kos and Leros, the islands most
affected by the refugee crisis last year, are slashing prices for rooms
and tourist packages by up to 50 percent for Greek tourists who will
visit from August 20 until the end of October, in a bid to reverse a
large drop in tourism arrivals on these islands.
Responding to a proposal by Alternate Minister of Tourism Elena Kountoura
to boost domestic tourism before the end of the tourist season, the
union of hoteliers cooperated with their members on these islands to
attract tourists who choose September and October for their holidays.
The Athens-Macedonian news agency is contributing to the program by
producing promotional videos which will be shown abroad by foreign media
and on the internet to reach the widest possible travel audience.
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