
GreeceMonkey was launched in 1997 and ran on a part time basis with offices in the UK and Greece. GreeceMonkey is now a network of 350 Greek websites attracting 3 million monthly visitors, across 2 popular brands - 'GreeceMonkey' and 'go2Greece'. Operating the most popular group of websites on the northcoast of Crete which are malia.co.uk, stalis.co.uk and hersonissos.co.uk. These group of websites represent around 50,000 tourists a week in peek season and around 7,000 tourism business.
GreeceMonkey has 3 of its branded websites in a top position in Google and another 4 in top 3 positions. This makes us the single most popular set of websites for tourists traveling to Crete, Rhodes, Kos, Corfu, Zakynthos and Cyrpus, with over 50,000 visitors users on our sites.
Since 1997 when GreeceMonkey launched tourism in Greece has changed a lot, mainly due to the evolution of the internet. Though the number of people visiting Greece increases around 4% a year the number of people using tour operators is declining. The number of people visiting Greece without a tradition tour operator is now around 30%, with people seeking accommodation advice from websites like the GNTO, tripadvisor.com, holidayreviews.com and GreeceMonkey.
In 2008 we took the decision to open up our websites with a brand new website design that will be launched at the end of 2009. Our new website design represents a brand new concept in tourism and we beleive will go some way to set the standard in the coming years. We will bring together the concepts of social networking, tourism, Ecommerce and web2.0. Our new websites will allow people to register either as a business, a local person or a tourist and allow them to create profiles based on business or personal requirements. We will provide the web sites to allow the business in Greece to connect directly with the european tourists in a managed and secure way under the guidelines of SETE and ABTA.