Hardalias: Tourism is a key driver of growth and outward orientation for Attica

The Regional Governor of Attica, Nikos Hardalias, held a gathering with the Board of Directors of SETE (Greek Tourism Confederation), successful the beingness of Dimitris Fragakis, President of “New Metropolitan Attica S.A.”. The treatment focused connected strategical initiatives for the further improvement and strengthening of Attica’s planetary entreaty arsenic a tourism destination.

Specifically, the Regional Governor presented the cardinal priorities of the Region, which include:

• Implementing a broad determination tourism promotion plan,
• Linking tourism with culture, the environment, and citizens’ regular lives,
• Enhancing the destination’s competitiveness done sustainable infrastructure and prime services.

As Mr. Hardalias emphasized, Attica possesses unsocial comparative advantages that let it to basal retired internationally—not lone arsenic a city-break destination but besides arsenic a Metropolitan Region susceptible of offering experiences 365 days a year.

After the meeting, the Regional Governor of Attica stated:
“Tourism is simply a cardinal operator of maturation and outward predisposition for Attica, the superior Region of our country. Through strategical planning, meaningful collaborations, and targeted actions, we tin fortify our destination’s individuality and connection visitors a unsocial acquisition worthy of our history, culture, and earthy heritage.

In practice with our Region’s improvement agency, ‘New Metropolitan Attica S.A.’, with SETE, and with each applicable stakeholders, we are moving guardant with a program to guarantee that our Metropolitan Attica takes a starring relation internationally arsenic a high-quality and sustainable destination, for everyone, each twelvemonth round.”

Closing
Mr. Hardalias besides highlighted that Attica is the archetypal Greek Region to found a Destination Management and Marketing Organization (DMMO) nether the marque sanction “The Greater Athens Region”—which besides serves arsenic the halfway slogan of its tourism policy—as a modern instrumentality for holistic absorption and promotion of the tourism merchandise successful each country of the Attica basin worldwide.

Finally, the Regional Governor placed peculiar accent connected linking Attica’s invaluable taste heritage, some past and modern, with tourism arsenic a lever for sustainable maturation and development.

He cited arsenic a premier illustration the signing of the Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) of €40 cardinal with the Ministry of Culture, which sets successful question the upgrading of taste infrastructures and services, the extortion and promotion of monuments, the strengthening of taste events, and the enlargement of taste initiatives crossed Attica.