{"id":6578,"date":"2025-10-18T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/event\/rits-participation-in-the-development-conference-ionian-islands-progress-and-development-goals\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:32:07","slug":"rits-participation-in-the-development-conference-ionian-islands-progress-and-development-goals","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/en\/event\/rits-participation-in-the-development-conference-ionian-islands-progress-and-development-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"RIT\u2019s Participation in the Development Conference &#8220;Ionian Islands: Progress and Development Goals&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"313\" data-end=\"770\">The General Director of the <strong data-start=\"341\" data-end=\"381\">Research Institute for Tourism (RIT)<\/strong>, Professor <strong data-start=\"393\" data-end=\"412\">George Petrakos<\/strong>, participated as an invited speaker at the <em data-start=\"456\" data-end=\"480\">Development Conference<\/em> titled <strong data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"541\">\u201cIonian Islands: Progress and Development Goals.\u201d<\/strong> The Conference was organized by the <strong data-start=\"578\" data-end=\"607\">Regional Development Fund<\/strong> and the <strong data-start=\"616\" data-end=\"668\">Special Managing Authority of the Ionian Islands<\/strong>, under the auspices of the <strong data-start=\"696\" data-end=\"717\">Ionian University<\/strong>, and was held in <strong data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"767\">Corfu on October 17\u201318, 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"772\" data-end=\"977\">Professor Petrakos took part in the <em data-start=\"808\" data-end=\"817\">session<\/em> <strong data-start=\"818\" data-end=\"844\">\u201cSustainable Tourism,\u201d<\/strong> chaired by <strong data-start=\"856\" data-end=\"881\">Ms. Christina Tetradi<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"883\" data-end=\"911\">General Secretary of RIT<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"916\" data-end=\"975\">Vice President of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels (HCH).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"979\" data-end=\"1379\">In his presentation, titled <strong data-start=\"1007\" data-end=\"1094\">\u201cSustainable Hospitality: Key Indicators and Challenges in the Greek Hotel Sector,\u201d<\/strong> Professor Petrakos presented comparative data from RIT\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1152\" data-end=\"1188\">annual ESG sustainability survey<\/strong> for <strong data-start=\"1193\" data-end=\"1240\">Greece and the Region of the Ionian Islands<\/strong>, highlighting the <strong data-start=\"1259\" data-end=\"1291\">challenges and opportunities<\/strong> for the hotel sector in its transition toward a more <strong data-start=\"1345\" data-end=\"1378\">sustainable development model<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Director of the Research Institute for Tourism (RIT), Professor George Petrakos, participated as an invited speaker at the Development Conference titled \u201cIonian Islands: Progress and Development Goals.\u201d The Conference was organized by the Regional Development Fund and the Special Managing Authority of the Ionian Islands, under the auspices of the Ionian University, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6603,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,62,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6578","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-workshops-conferences"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/6578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/6578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6605,"href":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/6578\/revisions\/6605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}