50 years of Metaxa Hospitality Group: Deep roots in Crete and an eye on the future

Metaxa Hospitality Group celebrates 50 years of past astatine the “Mikis Theodorakis” Convention Center of Creta Maris Resort – wherever it each began

On the evening of October 10th, the Metaxa Hospitality Group marked its 50-year day astatine the “Mikis Theodorakis” Convention Center of Creta Maris Resort — the precise spot wherever the travel began. The evening unfolded with emotion, music, and a heavy consciousness of community, arsenic partners, friends, and employees came unneurotic to grant a way that started successful 1975 with Nikos and Theano Metaxa.

Mr. Andreas Metaxas, CEO of the Group, reflected connected the travel of a household that stayed existent to the values of Greek hospitality, portion besides embracing a caller chapter: that of regenerative hospitality — a doctrine that reconnects hospitality with land, sustainability, and people.

In his moving speech, helium described hospitality arsenic “a travel that started with a imagination and has present lasted 50 years.” As helium said, “Since 1975, we person been faithfully serving Greek hospitality, with dedication to offering authentic and high-quality experiences that interaction people’s hearts and assistance them genuinely link with the spot and its people.”

Looking backmost astatine the Group’s roots, Mr. Metaxas spoke emotionally astir his father, who envisioned a edifice that would beryllium “a microcosm of Crete – with warm-hearted people, section products, and experiences that grant the traditions and architecture of the island.” He recalled how, during the operation of the archetypal hotel, Creta Maris, his begetter asked his parent to works successful each plot the aforesaid plants 1 would find successful a accepted Cretan courtyard.

Paying tribute to his mother, Mr. Metaxas said that “she ever supported my begetter successful a meaningful and graceful way. With her heavy cognition and emotion for people contented and the herbs of Crete, she near her ain mark, which has brought america to wherever we are today.”

Quoting Nikos Kazantzakis, helium added: “In my life, the top benefactors person been journeys and dreams.”
“For us, hospitality is simply a travel that began arsenic a imagination — and continues to animate america 50 years later.”

The onshore arsenic a root of beingness and hospitality

The Group’s imaginativeness for regenerative agriculture is already being implemented successful the Lassithi Plateau, wherever it collaborates with section farmers who cultivate utilizing regenerative methods. In conscionable 2 years, 40 acres of onshore person been restored, and 50 tons of fruits and vegetables person been delivered to the Group’s hotels successful Crete and Santorini. This inaugural straight connects section accumulation with hospitality, supporting the superior assemblage and creating a sustainable rhythm of prosperity.

At the aforesaid time, done the “Sustainable Hotel Agriculture” program, 75 varieties of integrated fruits, vegetables, and herbs are cultivated successful the edifice gardens, producing 6.8 tons annually. These cultivated areas person already been certified by DIO nether the O.R.A. modular — a archetypal for the Greek edifice sector.

People astatine the bosom of hospitality

For Metaxa Hospitality Group, hospitality is not a work — it’s a relationship. More than fractional of the Group’s employees are women, portion women besides clasp 67% of managerial positions successful Central Services. In 2024 alone, much than 16,000 hours of grooming were delivered to staff, supporting an situation of adjacent opportunity, transparency, and vocation development.

In addition, the “Sustainable Procurement” programme strengthens section production, with 90% of suppliers being Greek businesses that are trained to follow ESG practices and gradually align with the Group’s sustainability standards.

From Creta Maris to Santorini and into the future

From its archetypal property, Creta Maris Resort successful Hersonissos, to the Santo Collection Resorts & Villas successful Santorini, the Group has evolved into an ecosystem of luxury and authentic hospitality. Today, it operates implicit 1,100 rooms crossed 3 flagship resorts and is moving guardant with caller investments, specified arsenic the landmark Cape Tholos successful Kavousi, Ierapetra — a task expected to people a caller epoch for Cretan tourism.

Meanwhile, Creta Maris is entering a large-scale renovation signifier aimed astatine elevating the impermanent acquisition and integrating sustainable technologies crossed each edifice operations.

A household legacy

One of the astir affectional moments of the solemnisation was the tribute to Nikos Metaxas’ 1998 donation to the Greek state: his unsocial postulation of 2,229 Minoan seal stones, present a taste treasure of Crete. This motion exemplifies the family’s tone of giving — not lone to tourism, but besides to Greek civilization and heritage.

Accompanied by euphony from Nina Mazani, Hector Kyriakou, and the vocal ensemble “Phonodia,” the evening of October 10th honored much than the Group’s milestone anniversary. It became a solemnisation of land, people, and the aboriginal of Greek hospitality — a aboriginal the Metaxa Hospitality Group continues to shape, portion ever honoring its past.