Saipan-da will again be on duty Christmas Eve and Christmas Day on Saipan.<\/p>\n
As part of its annual Happy Children in Paradise campaign and promotions for the holiday season, the Marianas Visitors Authority will give away Saipan-da backpacks to visiting children arriving at Francisco C. Ada-Saipan International Airport.<\/p>\n
All passengers arriving on Dec. 24 and 25, 2015, will be greeted by Saipan-da and two Chamorritas in island attire. Children ages 12 and younger will receive backpacks of the character, which is well-known in Japan and loved by children from all Asian countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited this year to increase the age threshold of children receiving Saipan-da backpacks from age 11 to 12,\u201d said MVA marketing manager Bruce Bateman. \u201cTruth be told, even some adults would like a Saipan-da backpack!\u201d<\/p>\n
MVA previously gave away over 9,000 backpacks during the summer phase of Happy Children in Paradise from July through September 2015.\u00a0 Saipan-da is a well-known, panda-like character well-received by children from all the NMI\u2019s source markets. It helps to keep the destination\u2019s name in front of potential visitors from Asian countries. (MVA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saipan-da will again be on duty Christmas Eve and Christmas Day on Saipan. As part…<\/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":[2464,1914,43,212],"class_list":["post-216669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ada-international-airport","tag-bruce-bateman","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-mva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216669","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=216669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}