Taking into consideration the urgent need for business extroversion, ARTION Conferences & Events in cooperation with the Hellenic Chefs’ Federation, calls upon the professionals of the field for the active support and participation in the promotion of the Greek gastronomy through the 37th World Association of Chefs’ Societies Congress (WACS).
Yuri Grigirovich, the most important living Russian choreographer, returns to Greece after Spartacus and Swan Lake with a spectacular production of Sleeping beauty at the Badminton theatre. Composed in 1890, Sleeping beauty is not just a wonderful play, unique in the history of ballet, but also the first ballet success for Tchaikovsky. The fairytale ballet plot is [...]
Τhe Athenaeum InterContinental inaugurates the new banqueting venues on the 6th floor of the hotel; designed according to premium quality and aesthetics standards, while showcasing dazzling views of the city’s renowned landmarks, the Acropolis Terrace and the Acropolis Boardroom are ideal for highly discerning events. With a total floor space of 600 sqm, the Acropolis [...]
23-28 September 2012, Royal Olympic Hotel Τhe 11th International Conference on the Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles (STAB 2012) will be held in Athens, Greece, from the 23rd to the 28th of September 2012. As ancient as Archimedes (circa 250 BC), the topic of stability of ships (and more generally of floating bodies) has fascinated eminent scientists throughout [...]
For the 8th continuous year, the Maintenance Forum is expected to welcome the pioneers of the Maintenance Sector at the event – tradition, which over the years has become a reference point for professionals in the area. This year, the Maintenance Forum, will be held, at the Radisson Blu Park Hotel, in Athens, from 11 [...]
The Athens Convention Bureau completed with great success a five day study mission to USA and Canada MICE industry and Media Professionals in an effort to showcase Athens’ business tourism product and generate leads for future events in the city. The Study mission organized by the Athens Convention Bureau (ACB), with the support of the Athens International Airport and the ACB Members, is [...]
The 32nd European Peptide Symposium (32EPS 2012) will be held in Athens, Greece from the 2nd to 7th September, 2012 ,at Megaron Athens International Conference Centre . The symposium will present the most recent, cutting-edge research on a broad range of topics in the area of Peptide Science by leading international experts from both industry and academia. The scientific program will [...]
The 11th BIENNIAL GONGRESS OF EAOM will be held in Athens on 13th-15th June 2012. The meeting in Athens will be of high scientific quality with plenary sessions which address two Oral Medicine challenging topics, that of potentially malignant disorders and that of new therapeutic approaches. Internationally known experts in their fields will run through from clinical diagnosis to [...]
Mission accomplished! Athens will be the venue for the 37th World Association of Chefs Societies Congress in May, 2016. The decision was taken by the majority of the 75 countries who participated in the voting process, on Saturday 5 May, during the 35th WACS Congress held in the city of Daejeon, South Korea. The other [...]
Beetroot Design Group, the design agency and think-tank from Thessaloniki, who won one of the highest distinctions in communication design in the world (red dot Agency of the Year) and Benaki Museum, the largest independent museum in Greece, proudly present Beetroot’s acclaimed exhibition:“The Greek Monsters” for the first time in their home country, Greece! As part of its reputable [...]
As Athens has been selected as one of the top three candidate cities for organizing the 37th WACS Congress in 2016, along with Istanbul and Johannesburg, the Hellenic Chefs’ Federation is feverishly preparing for a dynamic presentation at Daejeon, Korea and invites the WACS members to support the Hellenic candidacy. Now the time has come [...]
Curators: Apostolos Papanikolaou, Aris Mavrommatis, Mathematicians Beginning on March 23, 2012, the Museum Herakleidon will present an exhibition of works by M.C. Escher and V. Vasarely, from its permanent collections. The exhibition does not have a closing date, however the works on display will be periodically renewed. The works were chosen along the theme of “Art and Mathematics”, [...]
February 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM – February 25, 2012 at 4:00 PM Venue: Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Αθήνα http://twitter.com/EWgreece Entrepreneur Week Greece is organized in Athens by the Hellenic Start-up Association and the Entrepreneur Week, with the active support of YES – European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs. The 3-days events includes start-up [...]
The Best of M.I.C.E Networking Forums® bring together some of the main players of the M.I.C.E segment in Europe. The fifth edition of the Best of M.I.C.E Networking Forum will be held in Athens from 3rd to 5th May with an estimated attendance of 120 European decision makers. For Laurent Fuchs, Director of ABC Solutions, [...]
More promising than ever before, particularly during this vital period for our economy, the synergy between gastronomy and tourism is being promoted through the Conference “Local food tradition and regional tourism development”, organized by the SOPEXA GROUPE with the support of ARTION,
BRUSSELS, November 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, announces the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athens. The existing Athens Park Hotel will be rebranded as Radisson Blu Park Hotel Athens by mid December 2011. The 152 room property is Rezidor’s very first hotel in Greece – the [...]
A culinary variety can be called a “Spice of Life” and nowhere in the world can one find such diversity than in Indonesia. The Indonesian archipelago is composed of 6.000 populated islands of diverse culture and tastes. Gastronomical influences came from the Middle East, Asia, Europe and India while Javanese and Sundanese cuisines are indigenous [...]
An amazing success lies in the fact that Athens was chosen to host the 16th European Congress of Neurosurgery in 2016, following a successful bid by the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society (HNS) at the presentation of the candidate cities, during the 14th European Congress of Neurosurgery that took place on 13 October 2011 in Rome. The [...]
The Athens Ledra Marriott Hotel in collaboration with Air France and KLM are bringing an imaginative selection of culinary delicacies from Argentina to Athens. Argentinean cuisine offers distinctive tastes that resemble a unique fusion of Spanish, French and Italian cuisine creating a culinary reverie of fine dining. Start your evening with a choice of Argentinean [...]
The Athens Ledra Marriott announced the appointment of Detlef Winter as General Manager. Mr. Winter is from Germany and has been in the hospitality industry for over thirty years. His extensive and impressive career as a hotelier includes working for 5 star leading hotels across Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa. Detlef brings to the [...]
Guests Enjoy a Flavour of Portugal at the Athenaeum Intercontinental Athens As the Athenaeum InterContinental prepares to celebrate the first InterContinental hotel opening in Portugal, over 350 bottles of Port and more than a tonne of sardines were today delivered to 19 InterContinental hotels around the world. On 29 June, Athenaeum InterContinental guests will enjoy [...]
INTRASOFT International is set to sponsor one of the most important international computer conferences in the IT world’s calendar. The 37th ACM SIGMOD / PODS International Conference will be held this year in Athens from 12-16 June 2011 and will see over 550 scientists and professionals come together to explore cutting-edge ideas and exchange techniques, [...]
It was Englishman Gary Hunt who left his personal mark on Greek soil by winning the third stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series 2011 in Athens on Sunday afternoon. Lake Vouliagmeni was the venue where the 26-year-old took his first season victory and repeated his win in the 2009 final. With a [...]
An unpredictable first round in Athens saw Luxembourg’s Alain Kohl take the early lead ahead of the final rounds of what is expected to be a wide-open competition live on redbull.tv this Sunday. Kohl’s flying front somersault saw him walk away with the highest score of the day as each of the 12 athletes performed a single [...]
Greg Louganis and Orlando Duque were among the high-profile spectators for the first day of training on Friday ahead of the third stop in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Athens, Greece. Louganis, 51, will judge his first World Series event on Sunday and the presence of the US Olympian added an extra element [...]
Objects tell your story! The worldwide community of museums will celebrate International Museum Day around May 18, 2011. Museum and Memory is the theme of International Museum Day 2011. Museums store memory and tell stories. They have numerous objects in their collections that are basic to the memory of the communities we live in. These [...]
Air China announced that it will launch a new route between Beijing and Athens via Munich on May 15. The route will be serviced by the large-capacity, wide-body Airbus A330. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula, Athens is Greece’s largest city and capital, and is the eighth-largest city in Europe. With a subtropical Mediterranean climate, the city is cradled between mountains and the Aegean Sea. Athens is [...]
Thursday June 2, 2011 – Sunday June 5, 2011 from 12:00am – 12:00am Titania Hotel, Athens, Attica Conference for those interested in the study of the world we live in and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena.Scope of the congress is for original and innovative research, learning, teaching and applying geography, as well as in [...]
The story continues! For more than half a century Athens,Greece remains faithful to its appointment with major sport events. The heart of the World Rally Championship keeps its beat for a week every year with the conduct of the Acropolis Rally! With 57 years of history, the Acropolis Rally can be identified as anything except “old”. The Greek round [...]
Thursday, February the 3rd, 2011 Royal Olympic Athens Hotel. www.gaming-responsibility.com Athens 24 January 2011. For the first time in Europe a dedicated conference referring to the “Gaming & Social Responsibility” will take place. In our days, there is a challenge unfolding more in the next years on the Gaming industry, the SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY issue. The [...]
The Onassis Cultural Centre is Athens‘ new cultural space hosting events and actions across the whole spectrum of the arts from theatre, dance, music and the visual arts to the written word, with an emphasis on contemporary cultural expression, on supporting Greek artists, on cultivating international collaborations and on educating children and people of all ages through [...]
As part of the HORECA 2011 International Tradeshow for Catering and Equipping Hotels and Catering Establishments, the first National Gastronomy Conference “Kalimera Breakfast” (“Good Morning Breakfast”) will be held by the Hellenic Chef’s Association on 5 February 2011 at the EXPO ATHENS Exhibition Centre. The Conference will bring together a large number of tourism, foodservice, [...]
The Psychology Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 5th International Conference on Psychology in Athens, Greece, 30-31May 2011 & 1-2 June 2011. The conference website is www.atiner.gr/psychology.htm. The registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements [...]
MICE Day at ITB Berlin 2011 in cooperation with the Association of German Event Organisers has tips for event planners – in-depth workshops and discussions on planning and optimising services – tips from experts for intelligent social media strategies Berlin, 17 November 2010. A badly organised event can not only cause lasting damage to a [...]
The Athenaeum InterContinental Athens has been awarded Greece’s Leading Conference Hotel and Greece’s Leading Business Hotel for 2010 at the World Travel Awards Europe. Founded in 1993 and described as the “Oscars” of the travel industry, the World Travel Awards represent the ultimate accolade celebrating excellence in product and service worldwide. This year, a phenomenal [...]
In parallel with the main exhibition, the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, in collaboration with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is staging a presentation of objects from Greek Neolithic sites of the same period for comparative reasons. The presentation, which features 90 exhibits from several museums, explores the similarities and the differences between Greece [...]
For the last 28 years, the Hellenic Athletics Federation (SEGAS) organizes yearly, the international Athens Classic Marathon event; a popular mass sport and tourist event, in which thousands of runners from Greece and abroad participate. The Athens Classic Marathon is a unique event, held on the authentic, historical, Olympic Marathon course and will take place on Sunday [...]
The National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greecepresents the exhibition “Myrtis: Face to face with the past,” which will run from 13 September to 30 November. It is the presentation of an important interdisciplinary achievement. The central exhibit is the reconstructed face of the anonymous 11-year-old Athenian girl who, along with the great Pericles, was one of tens [...]
The European Conference “Women Choosing ICT Careers: Influencing policy from practice” will take place on 26 October 2010 in Athens, Greece. The Conference will mark the successful conclusion of the EC co-funded project “gender-IT” implemented by seven partners from Cyprus, Greece, UK, Estonia, Spain and Sweden. Tuesday, 26 October 2010 Where: Hellenic American Union 22 [...]
Photovoltaic-Athens is one of the largest exhibition for the sector of Photovoltaic of Athens. The exhibition will provide the most propitious environment for showcasing new trends and applications in the photovoltaic Industry. Photovoltaic exhibition will be held between 21-24 October 2010 at Mediterranean Exhibition Centre. Investors in the fields of Renewable Energies & Energy Efficiency, [...]
Smartphone and Tablets Prompt Mobile Rethink, WTM Round Table Concludes
The move away from desktops towards smartphones and tablets is changing how the travel industry uses technology to connect with today’s multi-device consumer, concluded board-level travel industry participants at the recent World Travel Market Round Table into the Future of Mobile.
ICCA 2012 statistics: international association sector shows significant growth
With the release of the 2012 Top 20 Rankings for cities and countries, ICCA is reporting another year of continued strength in the international association meetings market.
Record £5.3b spent by APMEA countries in 2012 representing 28% of UK’s inbound tourism revenue
VisitBritain kicked-off its flagship international travel trade event, Destination Britain 2013, in Bangkok. Celebrating its 10th year, the tourism gathering will open with a record 35% of new suppliers, showcasing their strongest UK travel and tourism offerings.
World Travel Awards winners triumph in the Maldives
Hilton Hotels, Air Mauritius, Sun Island Resort & Spa, Seychelles and Lux Resorts were among the big names to emerge victorious at World Travel Awards 2013 Indian Ocean ceremony, held at the Paradise Island Resort & Spa, Maldives on 12th May 2013.
World’s Second Largest LGBT Tourism Market Comes Out at WTM Latin America
Brazil’s USD$23 Billion Gay Travel Market – World’s Second Largest LGBT Tourism Market Comes Out at WTM Latin America
Bosch TownHall Meeting 2013 with VOK DAMS China
The experts for events and live marketing from VOK DAMS China have realized the TownHall Meeting 2013 for their client Bosch in Wuxi.
Seth Mattison to keynote on day two of AIBTM 2013 in Chicago
Educating Attendees on How to “Rock the Workplace”
Keynote Speakers Deliver Context for AIPC 2013 in Cape Town
The lineup of exemplary speakers on hand for the 2013 AIPC Annual Conference in Cape Town, South Africa this coming July 1-3 will provide delegates with a comprehensive insight into how the country is emerging as a major factor in both the global economy and the meetings industry.
