Tsakiris

The government is considering supporting Aegean Airlines due to its role as a company that is key to tourism and air travel in Greece, without this entailing the acquisition of a stake in the listed carrier.

"I'd wanted to come to Greece for years, but something always prevented it from happening. But when I got the phone call from Stavros Tsakiris asking me to play Prometheus, I was scared stiff. And then I thought of my parents, who are now gone, telling me: 'Are you kidding Katerina?

More than 80 Greek movies, including 31 shorts and 50 feature films, will be screened at this year's Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, which runs from March 1 to 10, organizers announced on Tuesday.

The Greek presence in the ISM food and beverages exhibition in Cologne, Germany was vivid with 30 companies represented there. Companies like ‘Tsakiris’ snacks with original ideas such as the vintage packaging making them stick out from the competition, show us that regardless of the crisis the Greek business world is good in finding the way out of any bad situation.

Self-employed professionals were enraged by the provocative assertion of their social security fund's (OAEE) president, Dimitris Tsakiris, who said that whoever is unable to pay his contributions in combination with the excessive taxation and considers it patriotic should take their family and move to Bulgaria.

Tourism professionals attempted damage control on Monday ahead of the planned imposition of a levy on Greek accommodation units based on occupancy rates. The "special stayover levy" has not yet been defined but will apparently come into force from early 2017 and will be imposed on most hotels and rented rooms. Initial estimates point to a charge of 2 euros per night's stay per person.

By Stathis Kousounis

Uncertainty over the elections and political developments in the last couple of months has led to a slowdown in hotel bookings for the 2015 season, Giorgos Tsakiris, the president of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, said on Friday at the group?s general meeting held in the context of the Horeca exhibition at Spata.