{"id":176910,"date":"2014-08-20T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=176910"},"modified":"2014-08-20T04:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T18:00:22","slug":"hanmi-donates-1k-mtec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hanmi-donates-1k-mtec\/","title":{"rendered":"HANMI donates $1K to MTEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_176911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176911\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a attid=\"176911\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HANMI-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/HANMI-pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Hyatt Regency Saipan general manager Nick Nishikawa, fourth from right, hands a $1,000 check from HANMI to MTEC chair Vicky Benavente yesterday at the Hyatt Regency Saipan. Joining them are other officers of HANMI and MTEC. (Jayson Camacho)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-176911\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hyatt Regency Saipan general manager Nick Nishikawa, fourth from right, hands a $1,000 check from HANMI to MTEC chair Vicky Benavente yesterday at the Hyatt Regency Saipan. Joining them are other officers of HANMI and MTEC. (Jayson Camacho)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands donated $1,000 to the Marianas Tourism Education Council yesterday morning at the Hyatt Regency Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>HANMI president Nick Nishikawa was joined by four MTEC representatives during the check presentation, namely Pacific Islands Club general manager Hiro Sugie, MTEC chair Vicky Benavente, and Delta Airlines sales account executive Chris Concepcion.<\/p>\n<p>Benavente said that she was grateful on receiving the check from HANMI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMTEC is a nonprofit organization aimed at educating the public on the tourism industry and its importance in the community,\u201d Benavente said.<\/p>\n<p>Nishikawa said that they have always been donating to organizations helping the community. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we decided to donate to MTEC because they are training young people to become involved in our industry in our future so we try to support them,\u201d Nishikawa said.<\/p>\n<p>Nishikawa also said that the funds came from the money raised from their golf tournament every year.<\/p>\n<p>Benavente said the donation from HANMI will help the islands in the coming years because the students who are under the My Wave clubs are the CNMI\u2019s future leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTourism is important to our community at this young age for the students and that gives us hope for the future as adult in the job market,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses that contributed to the MTEC Tourism Summit include DOCOMO Pacific, Hyatt Regency Saipan, Pacific Islands Club, Saipan World Resort, Fiesta Resort, Laolao Bay Golf and Resort, Marianas Country Club, DFS Saipan, Aqua Resort Club, and Saipan Sunset Cruise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands donated $1,000 to the Marianas Tourism Education&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":176911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[301,233,524,159],"class_list":["post-176910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-hanmi","tag-hyatt-regency-saipan","tag-nick-nishikawa","tag-pacific-islands-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176910","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}