The Marianas Tourism Education Council will begin its annual fall outreach next month, taking its message of the importance of tourism to hundreds of students at public elementary schools, with plans to continue outreach to junior and senior high schools in the spring.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe MTEC education outreach will focus on the contribution of tourism to the islands\u2019 economic wellbeing,\u201d said MTEC chair Vicky Benavente. \u201cThe challenge we now face is, in what way do we present this information to the students, many of whom may not have electricity or potable water in their homes due to the impact of Typhoon Soudelor. I understand these are difficult circumstances, but I encourage all businesses to demonstrate leadership and responsibility by joining the efforts of MTEC\u2014directly or indirectly\u2014and assist in strengthening the education outreach in all NMI schools.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last year MTEC visited 18 schools on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota in partnership with the Marianas Visitors Authority.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are again looking forward to working with MTEC on sharing the very important message that \u2018Tourism is Everybody\u2019s Business,\u2019\u201d said MVA Community Projects manager Martin Duenas. \u201cEspecially as our island rebuilds following Typhoon Soudelor, we can all see the economic importance of supporting tourism and working to restore and enhance our islands natural beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schools interested in having an MTEC presentation may contact MVA Community Projects assistant Charlene Mendoza at cmendoza@mymarianas.com or 670.664.3210. (MTEC)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Marianas Tourism Education Council will begin its annual fall outreach next month, taking its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6987,5036,1526,6333],"class_list":["post-210246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-charlene-mendoza","tag-martin-duenas","tag-mtec","tag-typhoon-soudelor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210246","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}