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| FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS |
How do I purchase a ticket?/ Do you make reservations?/ Can bookings be made abroad?
As a publishing company, we supply available information on domestic sea schedules only.
For any further services, such as tickets, reservations and bookings, you should address the shipping company operating theroute of your choice.
Details for the shipping companies such as telephone fax numbers and e-mails are listed in our site.
Can you confirm the schedules?
Our main sources of information are the shipping companies and the Merchant Marine Ministry. The schedules listed in our siteare updated twice monthly after contacting and checking with theshipping companies. In the meantime, many changes can happenuntil the next time we update our site. Therefore, it is best tocontact the shipping company operating the route of your choiceand confirm your schedule before travelling.
Details for the shipping companies such as telephone and faxnumbers are listed in our site.
Can you provide me with ticket prices?
The ticket prices are only included in our monthly travel guide "Greek Travel Pages". They are the official ones, that is before each shipping company adds on any premiums, percentage for discounts and commissions that differ from one shipping company to another.
So, you have to contact the shipping company operating the route of your choice in order to be informed on the actual price.
Details for the shipping companies such as telephone and fax numbers are listed in our site.
I cannot find the connection I'm looking for
If you are having a problem finding the connection you are looking for, you either:
- typed the origin or destination location wrongly or
- there is no connection between the locations you chose or
- there is no connection on the date of your travel
How can I find all the connections with an origin/destination port?
If you need to find all the connections of an origin or destination port, you have to type the location in either the origin or destination box only and submit your request. You will then get a drop down list of all the connections.
How can I find a destination?
There are three ways to search for a destination. The map search, the hierarchical search and the special search. Each one of these search methods helps you trace a destination within Greece. The map search assists your search through the use of maps. The hierarchical search gives you the opportunity to search within a specific Region or Prefecture. And, finally, the special search provides tools to search by postal code or telephone code,location name or location code, and a location by its classification.
Who are you?
We are the publishers of high quality directories containing comprehensive information on travel and holidays throughout Greece.
Our company, International Publications ltd., publishes Greek Travel Pages (GTP), the only monthly tourism guide that has established itself, since 1975, as an invaluable source of information for travel and tourism professionals. GTP is a working guide, published in the English language. It constitutes a continuous source of reference and combines practical, accurate and complete information on tourism, helping thousands of professionals around the world in their daily operations. It has become an invaluable tool for all professionals as it offers reliable and up-to-date information presented in a well structured, user-friendly, and high-quality format.
The site, GTP.gr, is an extension of Greek Travel Pages, which electronically delivers useful information for the planning of holidays.
We provide information to prospective visitors to Greece, as well as people travelling within Greece, relating to the country's extensive network of sea connections and accommodation, and we also provide geographical and useful details of any place in Greece. A wide variety of travel related information is also available through travel directoryselection, such as details of travel agents throughout Greece and travel agents abroad selling Greece as a holiday destination, airline companies, shipping companies, yacht brokers, and details of any company related to tourism.
Your Vision?
To enhance travel and tourism in Greece by providing the means todisseminate available information and facilitate travelarrangements
Your Mission?
To provide everything you want to know about Greece.
Define the intention of the site
- Matching the structure, design and content of the site to the needs and desires of its intended users
- But most important to lead the public with new products and services - intuitive rather than just analytical!
- Inventing ways to build the site into a wider communication strategy
- Avoid the mistake of creating a site that looks as if it has been bolted on to a larger communication system, just to be a part of the Internet phenomenon.
- Creating reasons to revisit the site again and again - economies of customer retention.
- Finally, focusing on delivering reliable, up-to-date and accurate information in an utmost consistent way.
Which are your publications?
Greek Travel Pages (GTP)
Monthly Travel Guide
GTP Contents:
On the 500 pages of GTP you can find the followinginformation.
- Industry News
- Travel Agents
- Transportation
- Air Transport
- Sea Transport
- Rail Transport
- Cruises
- Yachting
- Motor coach
- Rent-a-car
- Accommodation
- Hotels
- Apartments
- Villas
- Other lodgings
- Attractions
- Museums
- Sightseeing
- Tours
- Public/Private Sector Support Services
- Travel-related services
- Tourism & Travel Organisations
- Private & Public Associations
- Embassies & Consulates
Greek Travel Routes (GTR)
Published twice a year.
On its 144 pages you can find more than 22,000 Greek domesticsea schedules printed in an airline-timetable style andtranslated in six languages (Greek, English, French, German,Italian, Russian). It also includes a map that clearlydistinguishes the six departure points along the port of Piraeusto the various Greek island destinations, information on Greekshipping companies and a list of their fleets, and details of theHellenic Tourism Organisation (EOT) offices in Greece and abroad.
GTP Russian Edition
MAR 97 issue
The GTP Russian edition is a unique publication and it wasproduced to combine, on its 256 pages, information on Greekhotels, Greek travel agencies, and agents featuring Greece fromRussia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Theinformation is presented in both the English and the Russianlanguage.
GREEK HOTELS DISCOUNT SCHEME for Diplomatic and ConsularCorps
Special issues
This richly-printed 54-page edition includes listings for 150deluxe and first-class Greek hotels, completed with fullinformation on each unit, a color photo and official room ratesor "door" rates plus the heavily discounted rateoffered exclusively to members of the Greek diplomatic andconsular corps all over the world. Twelve pages of the guide arededicated to a listing of all Greek embassies and consulatesworldwide.
Where can I find your publications?
The "Greek Travel Pages" can be ordered by your office andsent to you by mail, while the "Greek Travel Routes" isdistributed by the Hellenic Tourism Organization officesworldwide. Through our office you can order all otherpublications.
Do you offer any other services?
Direct mail
Our direct mail specialists provide you with mailing labelsfor any type of special promotion:
- coded in zip code groups according to post office requirements for discounted postal charges and prompt distribution.
- covering over 20,000 tourism professionals in Greece and abroad
- guaranteed addresses
- competitive prices
Fax service
We can do the promotion for you through our special faxservice. Tell us the message you want to promote, or the specialoffer, and your target travel-related sector, and we will do therest for you.
- overnight fax service
- 2,500 travel agencies and 5,000 hotels in Greece plus thousandsof other tourism professionals in Greece and abroad.
Our direct mail-fax data bank includes
Travel agents itemised according to areas and activities;Hotels itemised according to category, room capacity, areas,operating season, facilities; Tour operators and travel agentsabroad selling Greece; Airlines; Shipping companies; Stateagencies; Embassies; and much more...
Where is GTP marketed?
Greek Travel Pages (GTP) is marketed to travel and tourism professionals worldwide. Its yearly circulation totals 115.000 copies with an estimated daily usage readership in excess of 157.000. The average monthly circulation is 7.000 copies.
Subscriptions represent 73% of its total circulation, while the other 27% makes up complementary copies that are sent during the year to non-subscribers as follows:
- 6,000 to hotels & other lodgements
- 3,000 to tour operators worldwide
- 1,500 to commercial companies
- 2,000 to travel agencies
- 14,000 to professional visitors to the int'l exhibitions: BIT, ITB, WTM, PHILOXENIA, MITT, BTF etc.
- 4,500 to professionals who participate at travel & tourism conferences, seminars and meetings
Subscriber Distribution
Can I subscribe to your GTP guide?
Everyone can subscribe to our guide as long as s/he fills ina subscription order, which has to be sent to our offices by faxor e-mail.
An annual subscription costs USD 250 for Europe and USD 280for the rest countries. You can also apply for a single copy atthe cost of USD 30 or for as many months' copies as you wish.
You can pay with your credit card or remit to our bankaccount.
Can I place an ad in your guide?
Every company related to tourism is entitled to be advertisedin our guide.
By sending us an e-mail or fax we'll answer back giving youdetails of the advertising positions in our guide, theiravailability and the relative cost.
Are the summer routes available yet?
The summer routes are listed in our special edition "GreekTravel Routes" published twice a year after the HellenicTourism Organisation's request. The first edition is publishedin March and contains the proposed schedules by the shippingcompanies to the Merchant Marine Ministry. Its purpose is to givea clue about the existing connections and their frequency.
The second edition with the final and approved schedules ispublished in May.
Can you send me the GTR edition?
Both the March and May's editions are being distributed bythe Hellenic Tourism Organization offices worldwide.
Can you help me book a hotel?/ Are bus schedules available?/ Can you provide me with airline schedules?
Our company publishes the "Greek Travel Pages"guide monthly since 1975. It contains information on hotels, travelagencies, rent a car offices, cruises, camp sites, bus services,international and domestic sea and air schedules, organizedtours, yacht brokers, railway schedules, museums and much more.
You could apply for just a single copy of our guide at thecost of USD 30 in order to be informed accordingly.
