Vienna is a city I know well. I’ve been there five times and I lived in the sixth district for six months in 2002. It is a fun but misunderstood city: many think it’s all Classics and Kuchen; a strong image – the result of successful PR. After all, Austrians have convinced the world that […]
Greek Tourism 2014
Greece was, as usual, one of the big names in the World Travel Market 2014 show at Excel. The press conference of Mrs Olga Kefalogianni, the Greek Minister of Tourism looked twice oversubscribed with people jostling in the aisles. Events started during the week before the WTM: a Cyclades cuisine dinner, a Greek alternative music […]
Greek taxes: a Minoan labyrinth
My latest foray to Greece and its islands was fab as usual. The September sun was shining, the sea was warm and the public discourse dominated by the tax modernisation requested by the EU, the ECB and the IMF (the ‘troïka’). The subject was the abolition of 199 taxes towards third parties imposed by the […]