A change of baton is today in the leadership of the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises – SETE, as the 31st Ordinary General Assembly of the most representative and inclusive body of Greek tourism is convened and its anniversaries are held together. The meeting, as well as voting, will take place in the ballroom of the Electra Palace Athens Hotel and begin with a speech by outgoing SETE President Yannis Retsos, followed by speeches by Aegean President Yutihis Vasilakis and Eurobank CEO Fokionas Karavia.

The permanent members will vote for the election of a new board of directors during the closed part of the meeting, which will be held from 12:40 to 14:00, after which a new board of directors will be formed and a new president of SETE will be elected, and in the evening at 7 o’clock a public meeting of the body and a speech by the new the president will continue.

The SETE General Assembly is taking place today at the Electra Palace Athens Hotel.

As “K” writes, Yannis Paraskis, general director of the “Athens International Airport” company, is mentioned as the only candidate for the post of president of the Association. The strong support that has gathered around him stems from the desire of many of the association’s key members, its new administration to “reflect the growing awareness in the Greek market and society that tourism is a multi-faceted activity that directly or indirectly benefits many other sectors and businesses outside of Greece” . the hospitality sector, which is undoubtedly the backbone of our tourism, such as air transport, where the candidate in question comes from.”

The baton to the new president will be taken over by Giannis Retsos, who has completed his second three-year term in a row in the leadership of SETE. Mr. Retsos is leaving a legacy of successfully overcoming the unprecedented crisis caused by the pandemic in tourism, generating arrivals and receipts from abroad at historically high levels in 2019, which is expected to be surpassed this year, and at the same time he is crediting the drafting of a new national SETE plan for tourism. A plan that, among other things, records hundreds of interventions to be made in public and private infrastructure in order to ensure the sustainability of tourism activities and their useful functioning for the benefit of the national economy.