Angela Gkerekou inaugurates the Greek National Organization’s pavilion at the ITB exhibit

By Anna Papadimitriou
The Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister, Angela Gerekou, inaugurated the Greek National Organization’s pavilion at the top international exhibition ITB in Berlin.
During her speech, the Deputy Minister expressed her certainty that “Greece will be once more and despite the crisis, a leading power in the highly competitive field of tourism” due to the professionalism of those working on tourism and the crucial institutional approaches of the state. Mrs Gerekou mentioned that tourism is more than a simple commercial activity as far as Greece is concerned. As said: “ We, Greeks, don’t serve tourists, but we host visitors”.
According to her, Greece’s disrepute, during last weeks, showed an “extremely one-sided and wrong image” of the country, “far away from the true one”.
The Greek Deputy met with the Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, Rainer Brüderle, as well as with the Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowerait at the Greek National Organization’s pavilion. Secretary General of U.N World Tourism Organization, Taleb Rifai, also visited the Greek pavilion.