Xenia (hotel)

Xenia (Ξενία) was a nationwide hotel construction program initiated by the Hellenic Tourism Organisation (Ελληνικός Οργανισμός Τουρισμού, E.O.T.)

Until the 1950s, Greece featured only a few major hotels, mostly situated in the country's great cities, and a few smaller ones in islands like Corfu or Rhodes.

In 1950, EOT began a program to construct and operate hotels across the country, especially in the less-travelled areas.

[5][6] The first manager of the project was the architect Charalambos Sfaellos (from 1950 to 1958) and from 1957 the buildings were designed by a team under Aris Konstantinidis.

The Xenia program itself was officially terminated in 1983, and the hotels were given over to private operators or eventually sold off.