Accor – Plans for four new hotels in Greece

The creation of a training center for tourism in Greece, together with the next investments of the chain in our country, were at the center of the discussions that the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had yesterday with the head of the global hotel giant Accor Mr. Sebastien Bazin.

“Tourism is not only infrastructure, but also the human factor”, top government officials said commenting on the meeting.

The discussion generally revolved around the holistic approach to tourism taken by the leading French chain, which has a portfolio of 5,000 hotels and employs 80,000 people worldwide.

Our country also needs this holistic approach if it wants to improve its tourism product.

For Accor, a holistic approach means, in addition to the creation of hotels, the development of side activities and alternative and new forms of tourism (eg bleisure trips, travel that combines work and leisure, cultural tourism, gastronomy, etc. .λ.).

The plans and the portfolio in Greece

The ACCOR group inaugurated yesterday in Syntagma the seventh hotel of the chain in Greece, the five star Athens Capital Hotel – MGallery in Syntagma square, which belongs to the Lampsa group. That is why the head of the Group was in Greece and so he had meetings with government officials but also with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

It is noted that ACCOR plans to open four new hotels, which will be added to the seven hotels it already controls in our country.

More specifically, in 2022 the opening of the Niko Seaside Resort Crete MGallery in Agios Nikolaos of Crete is expected to start, while as part of the Strategic Investments, three more units have joined, the Banyan Tree Varko Bay in Etoloakarnania, as well as Raffles and Fairmont in Mykonos , which will be operated by Accor.

Accor’s portfolio includes four Athenian hotels and three in the region: Athens Capital Hotel – MGallery Collection (Lampsa), Novotel Athenes, Sofitel Athens Airport (Mitsis Group) and ibis Styles Athens Routes in the capital, Angsana Corfu Resort & Spa by Banyan Tree (York Capital- V. Kertsikov) that opened this year in Corfu, Mercure Rhodes Alexia in Rhodes and Ibis Styles Heraklion Central in Crete.

Accor operates in approximately 5,200 locations in more than 110 countries, having under its umbrella the full range of industry, from Luxury (Raffles, Sofitel), premium (MGallery, Pullman, Swissôtel), mid-range (Novotel, Mercure, Adagio) and economic (ibis, hotelF1).