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John · 06-06-2007, 03:22 PM

Zeus Group was born out of Zeus Tours, a company founded in 1949 by Greek tourism visionary and pioneer Diogenis Venetopoulos, as an incoming Travel Agency and soon became among Greece’s leading travel companies.
As of 1968 the company enters the ‘SMALL SHIPS’ scheduled cruises niche market by chartering the yacht ELEFTHERIOS and in 1973 launches the owned reconstructed wooden cargo vessel NIKI, offering 18 cabins with sharing facilities.
In 1978 Triantafyllos (Lakis) Venetopoulos became President and Managing Director of the company that was renamed in ZEUS TOURS & YACHT CRUISES. His main priority was the increase of the fleet and the improvement of production network.
In 2001 the fleet comprised of the vessels HARMONY G, GALILEO, DIOGENIS V., ZEUS II, VIKING STAR and V. STAR II while the production network was of universal range as it spread from America to Australia and the European countries, and ZEUS GROUP Maritime S.A is established under which umbrella all of the organization’s activities are incorporated.
Through these years, our philosophy has always reflected the founder’s contagious love for the sea and for Greece and his exuding pride for the glory of its past and the richness of its cultural fabric.
In 2005 following the tourism industry recovering from the negative influences of September 11, Lakis Venetopoulos becomes partner with HELLAS YACHTS and along with Dimitris Vasilakis, Variety Cruises is established.

HELLAS YACHTS GROUP
Hellas Yachts has been offering high class services in almost all yachting fields since 1978. Back in the seventies, Dimitrios Vassilakis, a young sea lover participating in offshore sailing races, met with Captain Nontas Nikolopoulos who left the commercial vessels to deal with yachts and yachting business and together establish “Hellas Yachts” as a small charter company.
Year after year they saw Hellas growing-up, based on the offered quality services and the subsequent high number of repeat clients. Hellas Yachts Group consists of six companies, each one of them dealing with different areas of yachting such as Ownership of the 2 Megayachts PANORAMA and PANTHEON,Yacht Chartering, Yacht Insurance, and Financing, Management and Sales of professional or private yachts.