{"id":2016,"date":"2018-03-07T08:48:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T06:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2018-03-06T23:49:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:49:12","slug":"news-in-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"News in Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/?attachment_id=2001\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2001\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2001\" src=\"http:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/17_MG_9646-Version-2-1024x520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a>Growth Prospects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greek think tank IOBE sees economic growth accelerating to <strong>2.1%<\/strong> this year from an estimated 1.3% rate in 2017. The estimate is broadly in line with the official Greek government and Europe- an Commission forecasts, both of which see GDP growing at a 2.5% rate this year. Greece\u2019s revised 2017 GDP data is due to be released in early March.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tesla Greece<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leading U.S. electric automobile manufacturer <strong>Tesla<\/strong> is setting up an R&amp;D facility in Greece to tap local scientific expertise in electric motor technology. The facility is expected to employ<!--more--> approximately 10 staff and will be located on the grounds of the <strong>Demokritos<\/strong> research center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tourism Outlook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greece looks set for another <strong>record<\/strong> <strong>year<\/strong> in tourism arrivals in 2018 with pre-bookings &#8212; an early indicator of the summer season ahead &#8212; rising between 15% and 30%. The country&#8217;s popularity as a summer destination continues growing in its two key markets, Germany and the UK, even as new markets from Russia and Asia gather pace. In 2017, tourist income rose <strong>10.5%<\/strong> on year to \u20ac14.6 billion, according to the latest Bank of Greece data.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growth Prospects Greek think tank IOBE sees economic growth accelerating to 2.1% this year from an estimated 1.3% rate in 2017. The estimate is broadly in line with the official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7,315],"tags":[11,312,34,17,8,10,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gktizein.gr\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}