{"id":215926,"date":"2015-12-04T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=215926"},"modified":"2015-12-04T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:00:19","slug":"busy-as-bees-exploring-saipan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/busy-as-bees-exploring-saipan\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy as bees exploring Saipan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_215974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215974\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ma-Feng-Wo-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ma-Feng-Wo-pix-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: www.mafendwo.com \" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-215974\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: www.mafendwo.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ma Feng Wo Bee Leaders Club, a Chinese travel SNS website with 80 million users, were as busy as bees during their familiarization tour of Saipan on Nov. 19-25, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen users visited the island to discover \u201cwhat\u2019s all the buzz\u201d about this resort destination and generate content for the website. Ma Feng Wo targets FITs (free independent travelers) and has had over 60 million downloads of its travel guidebooks and other information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe members of the Bee Leaders Club have a lot of travel experience, and they are good at photography and writing about their travel feelings. They choose video coverage, because as they say, a \u2018good picture is better than thousands of words, but a good video is better than the picture,\u2019\u201d said Marianas Visitors Authority marketing manager Bruce Bateman. \u201cThey shoot videos of all kinds of activities to immerse people in their travel experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MVA worked with Century Tours to facilitate the Ma Feng Wo tour and assisted the group with film permitting for their visit. Activities included in their itinerary were a tour of Marpi and Managaha, paddle boarding, UTV jungle tour, star gazing, snorkeling, skydiving, a sunset dinner cruise, and Garapan Street Market. The Northern Marianas will join 200 other countries and regions featured on their site. <strong>(MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ma Feng Wo Bee Leaders Club, a Chinese travel SNS website with 80 million users,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":215974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8522,8523,122,8524],"class_list":["post-215926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-bee-leaders-club","tag-ma-feng-wo","tag-travel","tag-utv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215926","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=215926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}