I would like to express my gratitude to Mr. Louis D’ Amore and his team for the great meeting he organised between Greeks and Turks of Cyprus who work in tourism. It is very nice to see that on this island there is still hope, dreams and civic good will.
During the session that took place in the Goethe Institute in the green Zone in Nicosia we had the experience to meet with Greek and Turks, both Cypriots, to have an excellent brainstorming session of how tourism can contribute to peace. We all felt comfortable almost 100% of the time of course 36 years of separation is a huge gap and the differences were also there in a very healthy and open manner.
I would like to thank all and each of the participants for their inspirations, good will and visions.
Let’s keep the spirit up and work for a better future for us and our children on a united and European Cyprus.
Social media is changing the world of Tourism. This is something we all know and we all experienced during emergence2009.
Trip Advisor is probably the place where most of us, as hoteliers go to see how our hotel is rated. Now Trip Advisor also has another face, the search by key word face. If you search Filthy Hotels in Cyprus on Google or even worse search Filthy Hotels on Trip Advisor we see that this portal is NOT a valid source of information.
On the list of Filthy Hotels in Cyprus you will probably see your own clean hotel that comes up. I am sure that hotels like Ledra Iberostar in Paphos is not filthy, like St. Raphael Hotel in Limassol is neither filthy, I was there many times myself and they were very clean hotels.
The word filthy is just another word in the English language; customers may use it in a hotel review to describe how filthy the clothes of the kids got after playing in the kids club and had a great time. This is the case of Louis Phaethon that arears on the list of Filthy hotels despite its rating is really good.
The list of filthy hotels in Cyprus on Trip Advisor is huge and it goes back until 2006. So is Trip Advisor a benchmark? How valid are the comments and the search results there? Judge yourself? Is there a way to avoid this? Yes there is. !!!