Ginral Travel & Tourism

Although the marine tourism with a view to pleasure, became popular in the seventies, they did not
become really well but at the end of the last decade, and is now able to really attract attention towards Greece as a professional professional regularly, topping Greece the perfect place, where it enjoys several advantages in this sector , compared with other Mediterranean countries, Greece owns several archipelagos (rock) in the Aegean Sea and in the Ionio Sea islands, has a very long coastal line, enjoying the wonderful climate where the sun shines throughout the six months of the year.
Most of the tourists who are traveling in a boat in Greece are from abroad, many of whom have excellent income and are able to get away from the normal tourist groups adhere to specific programs. As a general rule, the customers who are interested in marine tourism service in Greece are not without links with their requirements, they tend to apply their choices, which include the way in which they will spend their vacation, then later to tell others about the beautiful favorite places they visited.

Three varieties fit all tastes are:

Flotilla: organize a small fleet consists of seven or eight small boats, each carrying six people, including a boat and a boat length of eight meters. Per its skipper the boat, passengers visiting specific places where predetermined enjoy the joy of the journey as they sit under sail pulsate, and attracts this type sea lovers, but without that they have a great experience marine excursions are available. The use of these frequencies may reach about 15 per cent annually.

Pleasure craft: a boat where there is no crew of sailors, and hires these boats have left the same leadership, and he has to have the qualifications to do so, the use of this type of 80 per cent of total trips per year rate.

Boats led naval crew: accommodate these boats from 8 to 12 passengers on board, and the length of these vessels 15 meters and use of this type of rate of 5 per cent of the total trips per year.

Tourist fleet and infrastructure: The total marine tourism in Greece end it up to 0.9 per cent of the country's trade tourism in general, there is much room for expansion as the infrastructure subject to constantly improve on the Athens and in the provinces alike, and indicate most available statistics to The number of cruises rose sharply to reach steadily to 104 per cent during the years nineties, and the number of boats Greek tourist pleasure fleet now about 3250 boats, the largest number in the Mediterranean basin of these boats, and there is 75 per cent of sailing boats, and the rest 25 per cent are motor-driven boats sail. Referring to the projects that resulted from the period of the Olympic Games to be hosted by Greece in the summer of 2004 I worked on the increasing demand for this type of boat as it increased the rate of 350 boats and the size of these boats arrived between 45 to 100 feet.

Next to Greece for the purpose of marine tourism, you can see improvements in infrastructure,
marine boats, especially in the Attica region (Athens and surrounding cities) finds facilities and services provided to improve maritime fleet tourism, and witness the new workshops in St. Cosmas area and in the stadium of friendship and peace , which represents the great strength of the centers, local sites, providing there is a huge facility after privatization in Vluevos and fatigues, and at the same time, the port of Alimos has received some improvements and Altadelat.oakhr two pieces in the shipyards in the Attica area are those in the Lavrio and Fullagmana, was to invest about 100 million euros to modernize the shipyards in Attica region, and as the work in uniform has been completed lost his place was taken disadvantage! sexy entirely in the rural network in the port of Piraeus west of Athens, and became a river basin in Floesfos officially host of the Olympic Games, it has been allocated for the reception and hosting VIPs , because it is able to satisfy the requirements of a large number of private boats, compared to the shipyard in the port of Alimos Marina is ideally suitable for continuous growing demand for marine tourism from all strata of society in Attica area.

There are also coordinating efforts under way and continuing to improve the conditions in distant ships from the capital Athens basin. As an example shipyard in Lefkada In Gouveia in Corfu, as well as in Koos, and there is a work that is similar to the work, and so on a series of ships and harbors tourist basins, mainly in the different islands.

As the marine tourism and maintenance of yachts renewal in Kefalonia Island (west of the country), specifically in the Argostoli area and areas of Thassos and Rhodes, port Karelovasa in Samos and Blomara on Lesvos and the Gulf of moudros and Kalymnos and Totsora in Aarcleo and Vathi in Ithaki and St. Aafetameos in Kefalonia in Katapola in Amorgos. And continue to work in the shipyards in Samos and Chios and Pylos in order to restore the same type building, and plans to officials in Greece to establish networks to work in a group of islands with a view to opening a new market .. According to the plans for marine tourism in Greece is within a few years to come will be available for Greece Number More than 15 thousand place to shipyards and harbors tourist.

It should be noted that many of the presidents and princes Arabs next to the hundreds of men of finance and investment in the Arab world prefer to marine tourism in Greece and specifically in the scattered islands in the west and east of the country, and that this indicates that Fidel that the Arab leanings prefer marine tourism in the Greek islands, including the beauty of nature and stunning views miss her a lot in our Arab