{"id":215733,"date":"2015-12-02T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=215733"},"modified":"2015-12-02T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:00:39","slug":"mva-joins-china-international-travel-mart-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mva-joins-china-international-travel-mart-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"MVA joins China International Travel Mart 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-215733 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\/mva-joins-china-international-travel-mart-2015\/china-pix1\/'>China-pix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-215736'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Marianas Visitors Authority delegation promoted the Northern Mariana Islands at China International Travel Mart on Nov. 13-15, 2015, in Kunming, China. Standing left to right are PDI Vice President Gordon Marciano, MVA Guangzhou Office Tammy Sun, MVA China Public Relations Director Winnie Wang, MVA Managing Director Perry Tenorio, MVA China Director Jacky Zhu, and MVA Marketing Manager Bruce Bateman. Kneeling left to right are Glenn Ruben and Frankie Limes. (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\/mva-joins-china-international-travel-mart-2015\/china-pix2\/'>China-pix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-215737'>\n\t\t\t\tMarianas Visitors Authority Managing Director Perry Tenorio is interviewed by China Central Television, China\u2019s largest television broadcaster, at the China International Travel Mart on Nov 14, 2015, in Kunming. (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\/mva-joins-china-international-travel-mart-2015\/china-pix3\/'>China-pix3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-215738'>\n\t\t\t\tA Marianas Visitors Authority travel partner distributes information and giveaways at the MVA promotional booth at China International Travel Mart on Nov. 13, 2015, in Kunming. Over 100,000 people attended the event.  (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\/mva-joins-china-international-travel-mart-2015\/china-pix4\/'>China-pix4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-215739'>\n\t\t\t\tIndigenous Carolinian dancers draw a crowd at the booth of the Marianas Visitors Authority at China International Travel Mart on Nov. 15, 2015, in Kunming. (MVA)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority went to Kunming, China, last month to participate in this year\u2019s China International Travel Mar, the largest professional travel mart in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Over 100,000 industry and media reps and consumers attended the event held on Nov. 13-15, 2015, in the Kunming International Convention and Exhibition Center. The MVA distributed information and brochures at their booth, which was highlighted by indigenous Carolinian cultural dancers and craft demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an extraordinary opportunity for the MVA to participate in this large scale trade show,\u201d said MVA marketing manager Bruce Bateman. \u201cThe chance to reach out to the key travel trade professionals and media outlets that feed our direct flights from Guangzhou was extremely productive. We\u2019ll be seeing more visitors as a result of this promotional outreach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over 100 countries and regions including the Northern Marianas participated in the event, which had 3,087 booths covering 70,000 square meters. The MVA also conducted several media interviews at the show and in Guangzhou prior to CITM.<\/p>\n<p>The MVA operates representative offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou.<strong> (MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority went to Kunming, China, last month to participate in this year\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":215736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[171,1914,8475,212],"class_list":["post-215733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-asia","tag-bruce-bateman","tag-citm","tag-mva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215733","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=215733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}