Athens News Agency: News in English, 05-06-12

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[01] Cooperation necessary for development of tourism, deputy minister Liaskos tells event in Patras

[01] Cooperation necessary for development of tourism, deputy minister Liaskos tells event in Patras

Addressing the same event, Environment, Town Planning and Public Works ministry secretary general George Tryfonidis announced the materialisation of a Uniform Town Plan and the construction of public works budgeted at 13.5 billion euros.

Liaskos said that the ministry's development policy and activities were geared to reinforcing the specialised forms of tourism and projection of the Peripheries and the municipalities.

He said the main effort was founded on targetting -- with substantial funding -- and early advertising, as well as Greece's upgraded presence at international exhibitions, and called Greece an "imperialistic power in tourism".

Referring to long-term tourism policy planning, Liaskos said that the tourism resources needed to be protected, and stressed the need for cooperation with the private sector for joint actions aimed at improving the competitiveness, efficiency, productivity and administration of the system.

Liaskos further said that the new developmental law provided a major opportunity, as it included the entire range of tourism-related activities and boosting specialised tourism.

"Quality and a good image is what sends us customers," he said, and criticised the preceding PASOK governments of a "non-existent" tourism policy.

Tryfonidis, in turn, noted that there could be no tourism development without infrastructure programmes, adding that the main direction of the ND government was a balanced growth of the Peripheries combined with competitiveness, social justice and protection of the environment.

He said that the Uniform Town Plan -- which did not exist to date -- would begin to be materialised in the spring of 2006.

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