{"id":245143,"date":"2017-01-26T06:06:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=245143"},"modified":"2017-01-26T06:06:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:06:59","slug":"like-optional-tours-saipan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/like-optional-tours-saipan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How do you like optional tours on Saipan?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-245143 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\/like-optional-tours-saipan\/optional-pix1\/'>Optional-pix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-245145'>\n\t\t\t\tThe cast of \u201cHow Do You Like Optional Tours on Saipan?\u201d films on Managaha on Jan. 8, 2017. (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\/like-optional-tours-saipan\/optional-pix2\/'>Optional-pix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-245144'>\n\t\t\t\tTokyo TV films \u201cHow Do You Like Optional Tours on Saipan?\u201d on Managaha on Jan. 8, 2017. (MVA)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cHow Do You Like Optional Tours [on] Saipan?\u201d is the million-dollar question for this western Pacific island.<\/p>\n<p>TV Tokyo Corp. is producing a four-part series that will bring the Northern Mariana Islands over $1 million in advertising exposure to Japanese who are interested in overseas travel.  The 30-minute program, scheduled to air over four weeks in April 2017, will feature a wide variety of tours activities on the island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re targeting viewers in their 20s to 40s with this program, and the anticipated ad exposure in Japan is enormous,\u201d said MVA managing director Christopher A. Concepcion. \u201cBy leveraging in-kind support from the MVA and our on-island partners, including the Department of Public Lands, which provides filming permits for visiting media groups, we are able to obtain this level of publicity in our major source markets with a minimal cash outlay\u2014a strategic and high return on our investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While on Saipan this month, TV Tokyo covered parasailing, banana boat riding, and snorkeling on Managaha; an ATV tour and biking with Marianas Trekking, a sunset barbecue dinner; shopping at I Love Saipan and Joeten Hafa Adai Shopping Center, marine sports at Pacific Islands Club Saipan, Ni\u2019lala Spa, and various sightseeing locales.<\/p>\n<p>The film group lodged at Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan during the shoot. <em>(MVA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow Do You Like Optional Tours [on] Saipan?\u201d is the million-dollar question for this western&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":245144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[8924,237,212,2331],"class_list":["post-245143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biba-marianas","tag-atv","tag-marianas-trekking","tag-mva","tag-public-lands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245143","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=245143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}