{"id":265777,"date":"2017-12-05T06:06:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=265777"},"modified":"2017-12-05T06:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T20:06:56","slug":"new-marianas-images-aim-woo-japan-divers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/new-marianas-images-aim-woo-japan-divers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Marianas images aim to woo Japan divers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-265777 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\/new-marianas-images-aim-woo-japan-divers\/new-pix1-2\/'>New-pix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-265778'>\n\t\t\t\tJapan media Ocean+a Inc shoots at Tinian Grotto in November for its \u201cMarianas: Diving Paradise\u201d feature to be launched in January 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\/new-marianas-images-aim-woo-japan-divers\/new-pix2-2\/'>New-pix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-265779'>\n\t\t\t\tJapan media Ocean+a Inc captures a fish ball at LauLau Beach in November 2017, for its \u201cMarianas: Diving Paradise\u201d feature. (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\/new-marianas-images-aim-woo-japan-divers\/new-pix3-2\/'>New-pix3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-265780'>\n\t\t\t\tJapan media Ocean+a Inc captures lunch at Surf Club Saipan for its \u201cMarianas: Diving Paradise\u201d feature to be launched in January 2018. (MVA)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>With a new set of images of iconic scenes on Saipan and Tinian, the Marianas Visitors Authority is teaming up with Ocean+a Inc. to woo more divers from Japan. <\/p>\n<p>The media outlet spent a full week in the Marianas beginning on Nov. 14, 2017, to generate new content for its website that receives about 15,000 unique users each week. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf all optional tours taken in the Marianas, right now about 2 percent are diving tours. We can certainly grow this number,\u201d said MVA managing director Christopher A. Concepcion. \u201cWe\u2019ve already had some great ad exposure this year from our tie-up with Taiwanese underwater photographer, diving instructor, travel journalist and MVA ocean tourism ambassador Yorko Summer and several media [familiarization] tours. In particular, we expect this collaboration with Ocean+a Inc. to remind our long-time dive market in Japan that they can still enjoy fabulous underwater sites in the Marianas, as well as wealth of new experiences above water.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Diving sites to be featured include Managaha, Ice Cream, Eagle Ray City, Grotto, Banzai Cliff, Dump Cove, Two Coral Head, and more. The images will be posted in a \u201cMarianas: Diving Paradise\u201d feature beginning January 2018 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a new set of images of iconic scenes on Saipan and Tinian, the Marianas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":265778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[19341,170,212,19342],"class_list":["post-265777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biba-marianas","tag-dump-cove","tag-japan","tag-mva","tag-new-marianas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265777","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=265777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}