Greek Yachting Association
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Nafplion
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The Fleet
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Greek Yachting Association (GYA) is leading the initiative of charting these uncharted waters by safeguarding and guaranteeing the presence of every serious and highly professional commercial yacht in this side of the Med. The founding members of GYA are Greek professional yachting companies which are involved in all fields of Charter, Brokerage, Management, Insurance and Construction of large yachts. GYA and its Members represent over 90% of the Crewed Charter Yachts in Greece under Central Agency Agreement.

The objectives of this Association are to:

  • maintain high standards of professionalism in charter, sales and yacht management
  • closely cooperate with MYBA association as MYBA members and MYBA companies
  • organize an annual charter yacht show for the Greek and foreign flag charter yachts, under Central Agency Agreement.

The Hellenic Professional Yachting reality has been historically slight different than the rest of the World. Greece, a sea nation, portrays a much more prominent role of the "ship"owners themselves who are not just investors but very passionate and very knowledgeable of that part of their sea activity; a fact not negative in its essence. While owners are invisible to the Brokers and your Charterers, rest assured that they are following every need and safeguarding optimum operation and integrity along with their trusted Central Agents.

THE GYA FLEET

Board Members

  • Ioannis Kourounis
    PRESIDENT
  • Spiros Galanakis
    VICE PRESIDENT
  • Thanasis Skoulikidis
    GENERAL SECRETARY
  • Julie Kourouvanis
    TREASURER
  • Olga Artemis Politi
    MEMBER
  • Fotis Geranios
    MEMBER
  • Vasiliki Nikolaidou
    MEMBER

Members with other responsibilities

  • Tony Vamvakidis
    West Med Liaison

Honorary President

  • Michael Skoulikidis
11th Mediterranean Yacht Show

Record registrations, strong international attendance and an enhanced global footprint for the world’s largest crewed yacht charter show.

Greece once again took centre stage in the global luxury yachting industry with the return of the 11th Mediterranean Yacht Show (MEDYS), the world’s largest crewed yacht charter show, hosted once again at the port of Nafplion.

Held from 2 to 6 May 2026, this year’s edition not only reaffirmed MEDYS’ leading position within the international yachting calendar, but also set new industry benchmarks, recording historic registration figures and attracting the elite of the global brokerage community.

 

The 11th edition once again brought together some of the finest Greek-licensed professional yachts, hundreds of industry professionals from around the world, as well as dozens of exhibitors presenting products and services related to yachting and maritime hospitality.

 

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