{"id":203169,"date":"2015-06-02T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=203169"},"modified":"2015-06-02T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T20:00:20","slug":"students-celebrate-may-tourism-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/students-celebrate-may-tourism-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Students celebrate May Tourism Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the Northern Marianas celebrated May Tourism Month with a series of activities coordinated by the Marianas Visitors Authority.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-203169 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/students-celebrate-may-tourism-month\/tourism-pix1\/'>Tourism pix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-203175'>\n\t\t\t\tStudents of Garapan Elementary show their support for tourism with roadside waving on May 8, 2015. (MVA)\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/students-celebrate-may-tourism-month\/tourism-pix2\/'>Tourism pix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-203176'>\n\t\t\t\tStudents of William S. Elementary joined the roadside waving in support tourism organized by the Marianas Visitors Authority on May 8, 2015. (MVA)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/students-celebrate-may-tourism-month\/tourism-pix3\/'>Tourism pix3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-203177'>\n\t\t\t\tStudents of San Antonio Elementary show their support for tourism with roadside waving on May 8, 2015. (MVA)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Students from several schools took to the roadsides on May 8, 2015, to show their support for the tourism industry with a waving campaign.  In all, 13 public schoolswith MY WAVE Clubs received a promotional banner from the MVA.<\/p>\n<p>An essay contest was held for public elementary school students under the theme, \u201cWho are our visitors and what do we know about each of our source markets?\u201d A video contest open to MY WAVE Club students was also conducted under the theme, \u201cWho are our visitors and what do we know about each of our source markets?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MVA\u2019s strong partnership with the Marianas Tourism Education Council has greatly increased student awareness of the industry through our annual school presentations,\u201d said MVA Community Projects manager Martin Duenas. \u201cTourism Month activities aimed to give the students additional incentive to learn more about the industry on their own and to teach others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winners will be announced shortly and cash prizes will be awarded. <strong>(MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the Northern Marianas celebrated May Tourism Month with a series of activities coordinated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":203175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[43,5036,1394,894],"class_list":["post-203169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biba-marianas","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-martin-duenas","tag-northern-marianas","tag-tourism-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203169","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=203169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}