{"id":220259,"date":"2016-02-05T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=220259"},"modified":"2016-02-05T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:00:46","slug":"mva-delta-host-japan-travel-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mva-delta-host-japan-travel-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"MVA, Delta host Japan travel agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220264\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MVA-pix-300x188.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representatives of JTB World Vacations, H.I.S., R&amp;C Tours, Delta Air Lines, and the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s Japan office visited Forbidden Island on Jan. 29, 2016, as part of a FAM tour organized by MVA and Delta to help increase travel from Japan to the Northern Mariana Islands.  (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To revitalize visitor arrivals from Japan, the Marianas Visitors Authority and Delta Air Lines have begun a series of travel trade FAM tours targeting wholesalers in the country. <\/p>\n<p>The FAM tours are one of the proposals made in a December 2015 meeting in Saipan between CNMI elected and industry leaders and Delta management. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pleased to see the discussions we had in December being implemented in a collaboration between Delta and the CNMI,\u201d said MVA Managing Director Perry Tenorio. \u201cBy bringing in travel agency planners to experience the Northern Marianas for themselves, we anticipate a greater interest in the islands, which we hope will translate to more sales of the destination.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The first group of planners visited from Jan. 27 to 30, 2016, and included representatives of JTB World Vacations, H.I.S., R&amp;C Tours, Delta, and the MVA\u2019s Japan office. The group conducted site inspections at hotels and various tourist attractions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs this is one of the most popular times to visit the Northern Marianas, we owe a big thank you to all the industry partners who supported this FAM tours with donations of hotel accommodations, meals, optional tours, and others,\u201d said Tenorio. \u201cThis is a great opportunity to <\/p>\n<p>work together on reviving the Japan market.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Similar FAM tours are scheduled for later athis month and next month, as well. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To revitalize visitor arrivals from Japan, the Marianas Visitors Authority and Delta Air Lines have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":220264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,170,43,122],"class_list":["post-220259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-fam","tag-japan","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220259","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=220259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}