Greek Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis had a series of meetings with several German government officials during his visit to Berlin, as well as senior Condor Airlines executives, who informed him that the airline has 150 scheduled flights to Greece each week, to 16 different destinations in the country, ANA reports.
In his meeting with Deputy Finance and Energy Minister responsible for tourism issues Thomas Barei? (Bareiss) they agreed on the need for an institutional upgrading of tourism at an EU level, as well as the need to design a common strategy to tackle the repercussions of the new coronavirus outbreak.
The two officials discussed the prospects for promoting the tourism sector ahead of Germany’s assumption of the rotating EU presidency, as well as the possibility of supporting liquidity due to problems caused by the coronavirus.
Barei? congratulated the Greek government on its work and stressed the need for solidarity among the EU member-states in migration.
Theocharis also met with the Group Director Commercial Airport Relations & Groundhandling Procurement of Condor Airlines, Bernd Bechtel, and with the airline’s Commercial Director, Marketing & Sales, Paul Schwaiger, who underlined that the flights to Greece will not be reduced from the current 150 and that the campaign to promote Greece abroad is continuing.
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