{"id":10202,"date":"2011-12-30T05:40:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=10202"},"modified":"2011-12-30T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T05:40:08","slug":"japans-triple-disasters-pummel-cnmi-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/japans-triple-disasters-pummel-cnmi-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s triple disasters pummel CNMI tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Moneth Deposa<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The triple disasters that hit Japan last March 11 brought the CNMI&#8217;s tourism industry to its knees in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear fallout that hit the Sendai region of Japan brought further uncertainties to the islands&#8217; remaining industry, as thousands from its key markets in Japan-Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya-cancelled their trips to the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority assessed that a total of 2,640 tourists from the area cancelled their vacations on island just a week after the disaster. These cancellations covered only up to June this year and may continue until the rest of the year pending Japan&#8217;s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>It was projected that initial direct negative impact to the economy was at $6 million just two weeks after the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The trip cancellations&#8217; ripple effect was evident on the island, as significant losses were incurred by hotels that led to layoffs of personnel in the local tour and travel sectors.<\/p>\n<p>MVA noted 28 percent unemployment in public sector and 31 percent unemployment in private sector as a result of the Japan tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The tourism body also delayed some of its activities as a result of the incident. The CNMI, since 2005, has experienced a dramatic decline in tourist arrivals due to the pullout of Japan Airlines from the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moneth Deposa Reporter The triple disasters that hit Japan last March 11 brought the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}