{"id":233768,"date":"2016-08-08T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=233768"},"modified":"2016-08-08T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:00:59","slug":"mva-appoints-227-cnmi-tourism-ambassadors-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mva-appoints-227-cnmi-tourism-ambassadors-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"MVA appoints 227 CNMI tourism ambassadors in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-233768 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-appoints-227-cnmi-tourism-ambassadors-japan\/mva-pix-1-jpg-copy-5\/'>MVA-pix-1.jpg-copy<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-233798'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Marianas Visitors Authority appointed 227 Northern Mariana Islands Tourism Ambassadors from various travel agencies in Japan on July 27, 2016.\n(Contributed Photo)\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-appoints-227-cnmi-tourism-ambassadors-japan\/mva-pix-2-jpg-copy-7\/'>MVA-pix-2.jpg-copy<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-233799'>\n\t\t\t\tTwo hundred twenty-seven Northern Mariana Islands Tourism Ambassadors from various travel agencies were appointed by the Marianas Visitors Authority in Japan on July 27, 2016. The appointment comes following a series of FAM tours for travel agency planners and agents this year, sponsored by the MVA, Delta Air Lines, Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Japan Saipan Travel Association. (Contributed Photo)\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-appoints-227-cnmi-tourism-ambassadors-japan\/mva-pix-3-jpg-copy-5\/'>MVA-pix-3.jpg-copy<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-233800'>\n\t\t\t\tMarianas Visitors Authority managing director Christopher A. Concepcion appoints 227 Northern Mariana Islands Tourism Ambassadors from various travel agencies in Japan on July 27, 2016. (Contributed Photo)\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-appoints-227-cnmi-tourism-ambassadors-japan\/mva-pix-5-jpg-2\/'>MVA-pix-5.jpg<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-233801'>\n\t\t\t\tMarianas Visitors Authority managing director Christopher A. Concepcion, left, and Saipan-da, right, congratulate one of the 227 Northern Mariana Islands Tourism Ambassadors from various travel agencies appointed in Japan on July 27, 2016. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority has appointed 227 travel agency staff in Japan as Northern Mariana Islands Tourism Ambassadors, following a series of FAM tours to the islands this year jointly sponsored by the MVA, Delta Air Lines, and the Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands.<\/p>\n<p>MVA managing director Chris Concepcion presented the certifications at a ceremony on July 27, 2016, in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe historic foundation of the NMI tourism industry is based on Japanese travelers, and a continued good partnership with travel agencies in Japan is necessary for the industry to thrive in Saipan, Tinian, and Rota,\u201d said Concepcion.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment ceremony was also joined by Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands chair Gloria Cavanagh.<\/p>\n<p>Tomo Shimada, general manager of the MVA\u2019s Japan office also announced the launch of a 40-day, TV ad campaign to launch after the Obon summer holiday period in the Kanto area. The ad will also be on big screens in Shibuya, Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The FAM tours were initiated by Masaru Morimoto, Managing Director Japan of Delta Air Lines, who was quoted by Travel Vision magazine as saying, \u201cYou can enjoy beautiful beaches in both summer and winter in Saipan, which is only three and a half hour from Tokyo by a direct flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morimoto also announced the plan to strengthen the sales of Delta\u2019s Narita-Saipan route, the only regular direct flight between Saipan and Japan. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority has appointed 227 travel agency staff in Japan as Northern Mariana&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":233798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,170,545,12820],"class_list":["post-233768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-japan","tag-tokyo","tag-travel-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233768","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=233768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}