{"id":192879,"date":"2015-03-02T04:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=192879"},"modified":"2015-03-02T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:00:03","slug":"mva-sees-54000-prospects-2015-japan-golf-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mva-sees-54000-prospects-2015-japan-golf-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"MVA sees 54,000 prospects at 2015 Japan Golf Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority had the opportunity to reach 13 percent more visitors at this month\u2019s 2015 Japan Golf Fair compared to 2014. Over 54,000 consumers, golf business representatives and media representatives participated in the three-day event at Tokyo Big Sight on Feb. 13-15, 2015.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_192880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192880\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"192880\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MVA-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MVA-pix.jpg\" alt=\"Naoya Asao, Japan Travel Trade marketing manager for the Marianas Visitors Authority, distributes information to consumers, industry reps, and media and answered questions at the2015 Japan Golf Fair on Feb. 13-15, 2015, in Tokyo. (MVA)\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"size-full wp-image-192880\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-192880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naoya Asao, Japan Travel Trade marketing manager for the Marianas Visitors Authority, distributes information to consumers, industry reps, and media and answered questions at the2015 Japan Golf Fair on Feb. 13-15, 2015, in Tokyo. (MVA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAfter last year\u2019s severe snowstorm, we welcomed the uptick in attendance at this year\u2019s golf fair,\u201d said MVA marketing manager Bruce Bateman. \u201cJapanese sportsmen and women are still interested in golfing [on] Saipan and Rota, and it\u2019s important to maintain our presence in the market until the economy and exchange rate swing back in our favor and the Japanese start travelling in larger numbers again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MVA operated an information booth during the fair where they distributed brochures and answered questions about golf courses on Saipan and Rota and other tourism attractions throughout the Northern Mariana Islands. Attendees included 39,109 consumers, 14,307 industry reps, and 665 media reps.<\/p>\n<p>Next year\u2019s fair is slated for Feb. 19-21, 2016. <strong>(MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority had the opportunity to reach 13 percent more visitors at this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":192880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1914,2447,2448,2449],"class_list":["post-192879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-bruce-bateman","tag-japan-golf-fair","tag-japan-travel-trade","tag-naoya-asao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192879","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}