{"id":245640,"date":"2017-02-02T06:06:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=245640"},"modified":"2017-02-02T06:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:06:47","slug":"rota-saipan-brides-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rota-saipan-brides-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Rota, Saipan in Brides cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_245644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245644\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Brides-pix1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-245644\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Brides-pix1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese actor Shuo Yang, third from right, visits Rota, Northern Mariana Islands, on a location shoot with Brides in January 2017.  Also pictured are members of the media team and Marianas Visitors Authority marketing specialist Laura Hsiao, fifth from left. (MVA)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-245644\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-245644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese actor Shuo Yang, third from right, visits Rota, Northern Mariana Islands, on a location shoot with Brides in January 2017.  Also pictured are members of the media team and Marianas Visitors Authority marketing specialist Laura Hsiao, fifth from left. (MVA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the result of another familiarization tour negotiated by the Marianas Visitors Authority, international publication Brides will feature Rota and Saipan as the cover story of its May 2017 issue.<\/p>\n<p>Brides is published by Conde Nast International Publishing and distributes 500,000 copies in China, in addition to having a strong following on Weibo social media site.  <\/p>\n<p>The cover story will bring the Northern Marianas an estimated $367,800 in ad exposure value and features actor Shuo Yang, best known for his role in last year\u2019s most popular drama in China, Ode to Joy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wedding and honeymoon market is definitely a strong niche market for the Northern Marianas and has seen recent growth, partly due to a few key celebrity marriages here,\u201d said MVA marketing manager Bruce Bateman. \u201cThe MVA has been successful in negotiating a number of stories and local shoots by Brides magazine in the past. Although the flight schedule to Rota for large media or tour groups is always a challenge, we are pleased there were available seats to bring all the production team and equipment to Rota this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cover story, photographed last month, will include Rota Resort &amp; Country Club, Song Song Lookout, Tweksberry Beach, Rota Swimming Hole, I\u2019Chenchon Bird Sanctuary, As Matmos, and West Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>Locations on Saipan visited included Kensington Hotel Saipan\u2019s St. Angelo chapel, San Juan Beach, Ladder Beach, Coral Ocean Golf Resort, Mt. Tapochao, Salty\u2019s Bar &amp; Grill, 360 Revolving Restaurant, and Surf Club.<\/p>\n<p>The group lodged at Coral Ocean Golf Resort and Rota Resort &amp; Country Club.<em> (MVA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the result of another familiarization tour negotiated by the Marianas Visitors Authority, international publication&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":245644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[169,43,1394,15391],"class_list":["post-245640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biba-marianas","tag-china","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-northern-marianas","tag-shuo-yang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245640","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=245640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}