Minister Kikilias confirms opening of Greek National Tourism Office in Melbourne

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Greece’s Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias and Australian Ambassador to Greece Arthur Spyrou have confirmed a Greek National Tourism Office (GNTO) will reopen in Melbourne, Australia this year.

The announcement was made as Minister Kikilias and Ambassador Spyrou walked through the streets of Plaka, Athens on Tuesday.

During the walk, Minister Kikilias called his collaboration with the Australian ambassador “an excellent partnership” and noted he is “very happy that during his tenure we managed, with joint efforts, to reopen GNTO’s office – which was once in Sydney – now in Melbourne.”

“Australia is a very big market and we want it in Greece,” Kikilias added.

The Greek minister also noted that Ambassador Spyrou’s father was the director of GNTO’s Sydney office in the 1970s.

For his part, the Ambassador said this summer season will be huge for Australian tourism in Greece and mentioned that 340,000 Australians visited Greece in 2019 “and the trend is going up.”

This announcement comes after The Greek Herald first reported in March this year that Greece’s Parliament passed a bill for the establishment of the GNTO in Melbourne.

The office will be housed at the Greek Community of Melbourne’s (GCM) landmark Greek Centre in Lonsdale Street.

Source: AMNA.gr.

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