Mazi Travel & Events is a distinguished travel agency with over 30 years of experience, and over 30 well-trained and multilingual employees in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Cyprus, as well as an autonomous fleet of coaches. Mazi specializes in providing Tourism services for incoming and outbound sectors. Mazi travel operates along with the Sister Co’s Mazi Travel M ΕΠΕ and the Mazi Tourism Organization IKE offering a wide range of solutions in cultural, MICE, and leisure travel destinations for individuals, groups, F.I.T, and incentives.
Customers’ trust and feedback allow the team of Mazi to evolve endlessly and follow the current Tourism trends, or even create new ones to improve travel destinations worldwide.
Mazi Travel & Events has been awarded for its services and tourism products:
- 2016: Best Τourist Βrochure
Association of Greek Tourist and Travel Agencies (HATTA) - 2017: Best Τravel Website
Association of Greek Tourist and Travel Agencies (HATTA) - 2020: Award for the Contribution to Incoming Tourism
Association of Greek Tourist and Travel Agencies (HATTA) - 2021: Best Cultural Travel
Association of Tourist Offices of Macedonia – Thrace - 2022: Golden Award in the Technology Enhanced Experience category for the Tourism Product “Dive in the past”
Tourism Awards 2022
Mazi Travel & Events has collaborated with entities of the private or public sector, from Greece or abroad for the implementation of EU Programmes as Project Coordinator:
- UCRCA “Underwater Cultural Route in Classical Antiquity”
Project Coordinator: Mazi Travel & Events
► Production of Underwater Cultural Heritage Tourism Products in European coastal and maritime destinations and support the protection and preservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage in situ.
- MAGNA “On the Route from Greece to Magna Graecia”
Project Coordinator: Mazi Travel & Events
► Design of experiential sailing cruises along the nautical routes of the 2nd Colonization, coupled with cultural and scientific recreational activities in coastal regions in areas with nautical tourism.
- MeDryDive “Creating personalized dry drive experiences for the promotion of Mediterranean Underwater Cultural Heritage sites as distinctive tourism destinations”
Project Coordinator: Mazi Travel & Events
► Creation of a Transnational Thematic Tourism Product for divers and non-divers in the Mediterranean with integrated ICT/CCI Applications for Dry-dive experiences that help preserve and promote the Underwater Cultural Heritage Sites of the Mediterranean.
- Med Pearls “The Mediterranean as an innovative, integral and unique destination for Slow Tourism initiatives” – Tourism Product: Imathia A.s.A.P.
► International positioning the Mediterranean as a unique and integral destination to experience the Med lifestyle through Slow Tourism, inviting travellers to discover new destinations sustainably and responsibly while taking time to direct contact with local communities.
The Information Technologies Institute (ITI) was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organisation under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Greek Ministry of Development, with its head office located in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 10/03/2000 it is a founding member of Center for Research & Technology (CERTH).
CERTH/ITI is one of the leading Institutions in Greece in the fields of Informatics, Telematics, and Telecommunications, with extensive experience in numerous European and national R&D projects. It is active in a large number of application sectors (energy, buildings and construction, health, manufacturing, robotics, cybersecurity, transport, smart cities, space, agri-food, marine and blue growth, water, etc.) and technology areas such as data and visual analytics, data mining, machine, and deep learning, virtual and augmented reality, image processing, computer and cognitive vision, human-computer interaction, IoT and communication technologies, navigation technologies, cloud and computing technologies, distributed ledger technologies (blockchain), (semantic) interoperability, system integration, mobile and web applications, hardware design and development, smart grid technologies and solutions and social media analysis.
In the last 3 years (2018 – 2021), CERTH/ITI has participated in more than 428 research projects and R&D contracts with the Private Sector (Industry). More specifically, it has been involved in 239 EU-funded H2020 research projects (EU funding: 63.15 M€) and in 189 projects (88 National; 7 Interreg and 94 R&D contracts) funded by Greek National Research Programmes and Consulting Subcontracts with the industry (National projects funding: 8.63 M€; R&D contracts: 4.14 M€).
For the last 10 years, the publication record of ITI includes more than 330 scientific publications in international journals, more than 780 publications in conferences, and 100 books and book chapters. These works have been cited more than 7.500 times.
CERTH/ITI has a staff of approximately 549 people (including 18 Senior Researchers, 360 research assistants, and associates, 73 Postdoctoral Research Fellows, 28 Master’s and Undergraduate Students, and 35 Ph.D. Students, 9 Collaborative Faculty Members, 26 Administrative and Technical Employees).
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the largest university in Greece.
The main campus is located in the centre of the city of Thessaloniki and covers an area of about 33.4 hectares. It comprises 10 faculties which consist of 40 schools and 1 single-School Faculty.
The School of Rural and Surveying Engineering (R&SE) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki was founded in 1962, counting more than half a century of continuous contribution to the sciences of Rural and Surveying Engineering at national and international level.
The Laboratory of Topography (LabTop) aims at the promotion of Science and Technology in scientific and research areas, such as classical and modern topographical surveys, settings and building controls, the drafting of technical specifications for topographic works, and control and calibration of topographic instruments. Likewise, it implements property titles and the preparation of expert opinions, surveys of technical projects, and architectural constructions while also implementing the documentation of monuments and archaeological sites.
The methodologies developed in the Laboratory, in theoretical, analytical, computational, and research, contribute to the advancement and development of science. Consequently, the results of the applied research of the Laboratory are taught at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, being important resources for the new engineers.