{"id":16518,"date":"2013-12-18T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/strategic-and-smart-thats-brisbane\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T06:29:00","slug":"strategic-and-smart-thats-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/12\/strategic-and-smart-thats-brisbane\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic and smart \u2013 that\u2019s Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brisbane Aerial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanemarketing.com.au\/Images\/00003555_21_Super_Site_1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>Brisbane has been ranked as having the 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0best foreign  direct investment strategy in the Asia Pacific and a Top 10 Asia Pacific  leader for \u2018labour environment\u2019 in fDi\u2019s Asia-Pacific Cities of the  Future 2013\/14.<\/p>\n<p> The bi-annual ranking of economic, business and financial strengths  is produced by fDi Magazine, a publication of the Financial Times. It  grades cities on their economic potential, infrastructure,  business-friendliness and education expenditure.<\/p>\n<p> Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said the accolade was another ringing  endorsement of Brisbane\u2019s growing appeal to foreign businesses and  investors.<\/p>\n<p> In the past year, Brisbane Marketing has aggressively pursued  campaigns to strengthen economic growth by targeting key decision-makers  across the world through the <em>Choose Brisbane<\/em> campaign.<\/p>\n<p> The strategy is paying dividends, with Brisbane attracting important  investment in key industry sectors such as mining and resources, food  and agribusiness, tourism infrastructure and civil infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p> Brisbane Marketing\u2019s hotel investment strategy has contributed to the  572 new hotel rooms currently under construction in Brisbane, including  the conversion of the former Chifley Hotel into a 300-room NEXT Hotel  by Singapore-based SilverNeedle Hospitality.<\/p>\n<p> fDi\u2019s Asia-Pacific Cities of the Future 2013\/14 rankings assess a  range of data to classify the cities which make business expansion,  economic development and inward investment a priority.<\/p>\n<p> The fDi labour environment category methodology assessed Brisbane on  education expenditure, literacy rate, number of tertiary education  centres and the percentage of the population identifying as students.<\/p>\n<p> A panel of influential experts from the FDI industry assess cities  based on their growth potential and opportunities for investment,  initiatives taken to promote FDI as well as high growth industry sectors  and the growth in large infrastructure and urban planning projects that  create a city for the future.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brisbane has been ranked as having the 2nd\u00a0best foreign direct investment strategy in the Asia Pacific and a Top 10 Asia Pacific leader for \u2018labour environment\u2019 in fDi\u2019s Asia-Pacific Cities of the Future 2013\/14. The bi-annual ranking of economic, business and financial strengths is produced by fDi Magazine, a publication of the Financial Times. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}