{"id":306898,"date":"2019-08-29T06:06:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=306898"},"modified":"2019-08-29T06:06:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:06:32","slug":"mva-partners-host-golf-media-and-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mva-partners-host-golf-media-and-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"MVA, partners host golf media and agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_306915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306915\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/MVA-pix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/MVA-pix1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-306915\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-306915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golf media and travel agents from China and Hong Kong visit Bird Island on Aug. 11,2019. as part of their familiarization tour, which was hosted by the Marianas Visitors Authority, HK Express, and Century Tours. (MVA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To further promote the Marianas as a premiere golf destination, the Marianas Visitors Authority teamed up with HK Express and Century Tours to host a familiarization tour for golf media and agents on Aug. 8-12 on Saipan.   <\/p>\n<p>In line with this, eight participants from China and Hong Kong\u2014representatives of Golf 007, TM Golf, Golf Song of joy, Rightway Tours Ltd, H.C. Patterson &amp; Co., Ltd, Stanley Travel, Greenice Tours Ltd, and Enterprise Travel Service Ltd.\u2014joined the 2019 Governor\u2019s Tournament of Champions last Aug. 10-11, 2019. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe participants highly commended Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort for its beautiful scenery and excellent golf course,\u201d said MVA marketing manager Thomas Kim. \u201cThey also expressed belief that, based on what they saw and experienced on Saipan, there is a lot of potential to attract more golf visitors to the Marianas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the familiarization trip, the group inspected the Kingfisher Golf Links, Kensington Hotel Saipan, T Galleria by DFS, and Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan, where they stayed during the tour. The tour members also experienced other activities to help them better promote the Marianas, including a UTV tour, shopping at ARC, and dining at RufinaTropicals, Hard Rock Caf\u00e9 Saipan, Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa cultural dinner show, and Ladder Beach Restaurant. Iconic sites, including Bird Island, Mt. Tapochao, Banzai Cliff, Last Command Post, San Juan Beach, and Santa Lourdes Shrine, were also visited. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To further promote the Marianas as a premiere golf destination, the Marianas Visitors Authority teamed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":306915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-306898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-mva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306898","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=306898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}