{"id":267239,"date":"2017-12-29T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=267239"},"modified":"2017-12-29T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:06:16","slug":"travel-ceo-produces-two-marianas-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/travel-ceo-produces-two-marianas-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Travel with CEO\u2019 produces two Marianas episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_267248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-267248\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Travel-pix2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Travel-pix2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-267248\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-267248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talent and crew of China\u2019s \u201cTravel with CEO\u201d enjoy lunch at Hard Rock Caf\u00e9 on Dec. 10, 2017, as part of their location shoot in the Marianas. (MVA)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>China\u2019s \u201cTravel with CEO\u201d has produced two episodes on the Marianas following the television show\u2019s filming in Saipan and Rota earlier in December. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravel with CEO\u201d highlighted the first-ever Marianas International Film Festival and the annual Christmas in the Marianas during its filming, with the resulting episodes targeting highly educated upper and middle-class viewers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Travel with CEO\u2019 has been working with the Marianas Visitors Authority since the first announcement of the Marianas International Film Festival to do a feature on the event and the destination in general. This is quite a compliment, as the production film has also filmed the world-renowned Cannes Film Festival,\u201d said MVA managing director Christopher A. Concepcion. \u201cIn particular, show anchor Shi Wei reportedly had a great time on Rota with his local guides, learning to husk a coconut, weaving coconut fronds, and enjoying the water at Rota Swimming Hole. Our guides were able to show that for people living in busy and crowded cities, Rota is definitely a quick getaway worth taking.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravel with CEO\u201d is produced by Hu Jin Media and is a financial and travel reality show, which airs on YICAI Shanghai TV. Since its inception three years ago, the show has been to more than 50 countries and 100 destinations and has had more than 200 guests. At the China Radio and Television and New Media Innovation Forum presented by China Media Industry Association, \u201cTravel with CEO\u201d was awarded \u201cImpact Chinese Media &#8211; Innovative Program\u201d in 2015 and \u201cImpact Chinese Media &#8211; Influential Program\u201d in 2016. The estimated advertising exposure value for the Marianas from the show is $140,000. <\/p>\n<p>Local eateries featured included Tony\u2019s Seafood, Bubba Gump Shrimp, Kinpachi Restaurant, Rota BBQ Restaurant, Capricciosa\u2019s, Hard Rock Caf\u00e9 Saipan, and Sichuan Restaurant. Other sites and attractions filmed include various local beaches, Stars &amp; Stripes dinner cruise, a UTV ride, SeaTouch marine encounter, a diving tour, Garapan Street Market, Songsong Village Lookout, Rota\u2019s Japanese-era sugar mill and train, Rota\u2019s West Harbor, Tweksberry Beach, and Senbon Yashi coconut plantation. The group lodged at Grandvrio Resort Saipan. (MVA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s \u201cTravel with CEO\u201d has produced two episodes on the Marianas following the television show\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":267248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[402,19602,17999,15914],"class_list":["post-267239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ceo","tag-shi-wei","tag-sichuan-restaurant","tag-stars-stripes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267239","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=267239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}