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Aria Hotels “to Establish Four Vertiports Across Greece”

Aria Hotels is invest­ing in a net­work of eVTOL ver­ti­ports across Greece to speed up trav­el between Greek cities and islands, reports a press release.

Set to debut in 2026, the Greek hos­pi­tal­i­ty brand is invest­ing in a net­work of four eVTOL ver­ti­ports cov­er­ing Athens, the South­ern main­land and the pop­u­lar Aegean islands, to make trav­el between Greek cities and islands eas­i­er. This is part of of a EUR50 mil­lion invest­ment to pro­mote sus­tain­able tourism across the coun­try. 

The ver­ti­ports are planned to include elec­tric charg­ing sta­tions and relax­ation areas for pas­sen­gers, requir­ing min­i­mal space and reduc­ing envi­ron­men­tal impact com­pared to tra­di­tion­al air­craft infra­struc­ture. This devel­op­ment is expect­ed to enhance the acces­si­bil­i­ty of Greece’s numer­ous tourist des­ti­na­tions.

Known for its port­fo­lio of 70 bou­tique prop­er­ties across Greece, the Aria Hotels group will be one of the world’s first hos­pi­tal­i­ty groups, and the first in Greece, to direct­ly lease and man­age ten Beta Tech­nolo­gies ALIA eVTOL air­craft leased through an agree­ment with LCI, a Libra Group sub­sidiary. Aria Hotels is part of the same Group.

In 2022, LCI placed finan­cial deposits for 125 of Beta’s Alia eVTOL, which it plans to add to its leas­ing port­fo­lio. The air­craft is designed to trans­port five pas­sen­gers and a pilot or a pay­load of 635kg, with a max­i­mum range of 250 nau­ti­cal miles and a recharge time of under an hour.

Makir Pan­tazatos, CEO of Aria Hotels, com­ment­ed, “We are proud to make the first-of-its-kind invest­ments to allow Greece to ben­e­fit from new tech­nolo­gies sup­port­ing eco­tourism. This invest­ment fur­thers Aria’s dri­ving mis­sion to help more trav­ellers expe­ri­ence authen­tic Greek cul­ture, his­to­ry and unpar­al­leled and diverse beau­ty.”

Makir Pan­tazatos

Manos Kouligkas, CEO of Libra Group, added, “Through the inno­v­a­tive work of Aria Hotels, in part­ner­ship with our aero­space sub­sidiary and lead­ing glob­al avi­a­tion lessor, LCI, we will sup­port sus­tain­able tourism and the eco­nom­ic growth of Greece and the Greater East­ern Mediter­ranean region in hos­pi­tal­i­ty, aero­space, renew­able ener­gy and beyond.”

The devel­op­ment is expect­ed to enhance the acces­si­bil­i­ty of Greece’s tourist des­ti­na­tions between the main­land and its islands. By con­struct­ing these ver­ti­ports, the Group address­es the need for more inno­v­a­tive solu­tions to cut car­bon emis­sions, reduce noise pol­lu­tion, enhance oper­a­tional effi­cien­cy, and sup­port sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic growth and local com­mu­ni­ties.

For more infor­ma­tion

https://www.beta.team/aircraft/

https://www.ariahotels.gr/

https://www.libra.com/

(Top image: The Alia-250 eVTOL air­craft is designed to seat five pas­sen­gers plus one pilot — Cred­it: Beta Tech­nolo­gies)

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