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Hotel Investment Partners and AMR Collection open AluaSoul Zakynthos Hotel Hotel Investment Partners (HIP), owner of hotel units in Southern Europe, owned by Blackstone Investment Fund and hotel management company Apple Leisure Group (ALG), part of Hyatt, recently announced the opening of AluaSoul Zakynthos – former Plagos Beach hotel in …

G. Filippopolitis: “Many customers, even vaccinated, are afraid to travel. We will not have the flights we expected to have “ This season will be difficult for entrepreneurs and tourism workers, due to the pandemic. According to the data so far, arrivals will be at last year’s levels and the industry will …

With many “unknown’s”, Greek Tourism enters the final stretch towards the opening of the summer season of 2021. This was confirmed yesterday by the arrival in Rhodes of 189 tourists from the Netherlands, in a “experiment” of group travel within Europe. The “experiment”, as the Greek and international media call …

EXCLUSIVE: This is the FULL hotel operation protocol plan which has been Submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office. The plan is a 26 page plan with some details translated in English below. The full final design protocol for the operation of hotels and accommodation of all kinds, with specifications for …

To help celebrate the last ten years of the Zakynthos Informer we thought we would report on some memorable stories from 2010 to 2020. The problem we found however, is that there have been so many and it’s really hard to know that to choose! To try and narrow it …

Lesante Blu Exclusive Beach resort has been added to the Virtuoso’s exclusive portfolio. According to author Tatiana Rokou of Traveldailynews.com The luxury hotel joins the collection of the finest luxury hotels, resorts, cruise lines, airline tour operators and other suppliers worldwide.  These partners specialise in fine clientele and the hotel …

It has been announced that five hotels in Greece have been purchased by Blackstone Real Estate Partners Europe, a division of the American private equity firm Blackstone Group. The deal said to be around 179 million euros, includes two hotels in Zakynthos; Louis Zante Beach Hotel in Laganas and Plagos …

During the terrible fires last weekend the area of Keri was hit hard, including the Keri Village and Spa hotel run by the Tsourounakis Family. Guests of the hotel were evacuated for their safety and the hotel suffered some damage. Amazingly thanks to the incredible work of the islands firefighters …

In January 2018 an Accommodation Tax came into effect, to be paid by all holidaymakers/tourists visiting Greece. The tax is payable by all guests upon arrival at check-in, (or to the renter) either by cash or card (please ensure that you also ask for a receipt).  This tax is payable …

This week TUI announced that a number of new hotels will open across Greece this summer. One of them will be the new TUI Sensimar Zante Maris in the resort of Tsilivi. The Sensimar Zante Maris will be part of a group of new Sensimar hotels and other locations include …