{"id":4026,"date":"2012-05-24T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/statement-by-greek-minister-of-culture-and-tourism-tatiana-karapanagioti\/"},"modified":"2012-05-24T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T10:00:19","slug":"statement-by-greek-minister-of-culture-and-tourism-tatiana-karapanagioti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/statement-by-greek-minister-of-culture-and-tourism-tatiana-karapanagioti\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Greek Minister of Culture and Tourism, Tatiana Karapanagioti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently appointed Greek Minister of Culture and Tourism, Tatiana Karapanagioti, issued this statement following a briefing to Prime Minister Panayiotis Pikrammenos, head of the interim caretaker government.<\/p>\n<p>\"Greece is here as it always has been, and as it always will be, offering tourists a unique travel experience. Our land is as beautiful as ever, our cultural heritage as rich as ever.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing has changed, least of all legendary Greek hospitality, which has embraced millions of visitors over the years, including a record 16.5 million in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>I have held extensive discussion with leading tourism industry associations. Everyone has expressed a strong commitment to ensuring that the Greek holiday experience is as rich and rewarding as it has always been.<\/p>\n<p>Greece is as timeless as the warm welcome of the Greeks. That\u2019s the way it has always been \u2013 and 2012 will be no exception.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently appointed Greek Minister of Culture and Tourism, Tatiana Karapanagioti, issued this statement following a briefing to Prime Minister Panayiotis Pikrammenos, head of the interim caretaker government. \"Greece is here as it always has been, and as it always will be, offering tourists a unique travel experience. Our land is as beautiful as ever, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4027,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-embassy-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}