{"id":265532,"date":"2017-12-01T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=265532"},"modified":"2017-12-01T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T20:00:23","slug":"mva-joins-china-tourism-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mva-joins-china-tourism-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"MVA joins China  tourism exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-265532 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-joins-china-tourism-exhibit\/mva-pix3-11\/'>MVA-pix3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-265551'>\n\t\t\t\tMarianas Visitors Authority marketing specialist Laura Hsiao, left, promotes Saipan, Tinian, and Rota at the China International Travel Mart in Kunming on Nov. 17-19, 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\/mva-joins-china-tourism-exhibit\/mva-pix4-8\/'>MVA-pix4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-265552'>\n\t\t\t\tMarianas Visitors Authority deputy managing director Judy Torres, third from left, and the CNMI delegation promote Saipan, Tinian, and Rota at the China International Travel Mart in Kunming on Nov. 17-19, 2017.  Pictured from left are MVA Shanghai Travel Trade manager Silver Xu, marketing specialist Laura Hsiao, Torres, chief accountant Joanne Paraiso, MVA Beijing Travel Trade manager Flo Shi, and MVA Guangzhou marketing manager Ben Liu. (MVA)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>On Nov.17-19, 2017, the Marianas Visitors Authority joined hands with Dynasty Holiday, Century Tours, Top Development Inc. Shenzhen Professional International Travel Service, and China Youth Travel Service (Beijing) to participate in China International Tourism Mart in Kunming.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was first held in 2001, the China International Tourism Mart has been held annually in Shanghai or Kunming, and it has grown into the largest professional travel trade fair in Asia, attracting the attention of the travel industry from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>MVA deputy managing director Judy Torres joined the exhibition at Dianchi International Convention Center to meet with a wide range of travel partners in mainland China and personally express the MVA\u2019s appreciation for their support. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very optimistic about the future development of the travel market in mainland China and took this opportunity to enhance the awareness of the Marianas in the market,\u201d said Torres.  \u201cWe continue to strive to make Saipan, Tinian and Rota the first choice for Chinese tourists on island vacation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MVA has upgraded its Chinese official website, its official WeChat platform, its official Sina Weibo, and other travel information for Saipan, Tinian and Rota to enhance mainland tourists\u2019 understanding of the Marianas.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Hong Kong have non-stop flights to Saipan, and nearly 20 cities across the country have opened transit flight. The Marianas is the only American territory offering Chinese tourists visa-free policy, which has greatly benefited the tourism industry.<strong> (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov.17-19, 2017, the Marianas Visitors Authority joined hands with Dynasty Holiday, Century Tours, Top&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":265551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18578,212,19275,6162],"class_list":["post-265532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-dynasty-holiday","tag-mva","tag-sina-weibo","tag-top-development-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265532","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=265532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}