{"id":202458,"date":"2015-05-25T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=202458"},"modified":"2015-05-25T06:00:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T20:00:41","slug":"northern-marianas-wins-major-world-travel-fair-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/northern-marianas-wins-major-world-travel-fair-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Marianas  wins major World  Travel Fair award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas was recognized as the Best Island Tour Destination at the World Travel Fair Awards 2015 this month in Shanghai, China.  The Marianas Visitors Authority joined hundreds of other travel trade organizations, NTOs and the public at the event.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_202462\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202462\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"202462\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/World-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/World-pix.jpg\" alt=\"The Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Rota won the Best Island Tour Destination award during the World Travel Fair Awards in Shanghai on May 6, 2015. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-202462\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Rota won the Best Island Tour Destination award during the World Travel Fair Awards in Shanghai on May 6, 2015. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The World Travel Fair judges select and award \u201cthe best travel destinations, the best hotels, the best airlines, the best travel routes and the best tourism service\u201d to destinations and services noted to be delivering high quality products to the tourism industry and consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very happy to receive this recognition for Best Island Tour Destination from the World Travel Fair experts,\u201d said MVA marketing manager Bruce Bateman. \u201cBeing recognized as outstanding at one of the biggest travel shows in Asia shows us we are on the right track by improving our islands\u2019 tourism attractions. It helps potential visitors choose between a number of competing destinations and will likely bring an even bigger surge of arrivals from Mainland China to the Northern Mariana Islands,\u201d said Bateman.<\/p>\n<p>The selection was made by an advisory board composed of experts from the government, the tourism industry, travel sites, and travel media. <strong>(MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas was recognized as the Best Island Tour Destination at the World Travel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":202462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[171,1914,212,1394],"class_list":["post-202458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-asia","tag-bruce-bateman","tag-mva","tag-northern-marianas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202458","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=202458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}