The Department of Finance had remitted $335,962 in hotel occupancy tax collection last December and $500,000 more this month to the Marianas Visitors Authority, for a total of $835,962, according to MVA managing director Priscilla M. Iakopo yesterday. Speaking at the MVA board...

The Marianas Visitors Authority continues to build momentum on its international marketing of Saipan Marathon 2020, set for March 14, 2020, in the Marianas. The MVA launched marketing for the annual signature event in August 2019, touting the race’s full marathon, half marathon,...

The takeaway is that we need to help Skymark help us help them. This new era of Japanese tourism to the Northern Marianas depends on a mutually beneficial relationship. Skymark can’t fly unless we keep their customers happy, satisfied, and feeling as if they got their money’s...

The number of visitors from China continues to decline in the CNMI and that is starting to worry Marianas Visitors Authority board chair Marian Aldan-Pierce, who suggested exploring other source markets for tourists. At the same time, Aldan-Pierce laments that many of the factors...