{"id":314225,"date":"2019-12-18T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=314225"},"modified":"2019-12-18T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:00:43","slug":"visitor-arrivals-up-610-in-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/visitor-arrivals-up-610-in-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitor arrivals up 610% in November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-314225 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\/visitor-arrivals-up-610-in-november-2019\/graph-12-18-19\/'>graph-12-18-19<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/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\/visitor-arrivals-up-610-in-november-2019\/graph-arrivals-12-18-19-2\/'>GRAPH-ARRIVALS-12-18-19<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Arrivals to the islands of Saipan, Tinian and Rota increased 610% to 39,717 visitors in November 2019, compared to 5,595 visitors in November 2018, according to the Marianas Visitors Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Visitor arrivals in November 2018 were extremely low due to the closure of the Francisco C. Ada\/Saipan International Airport for most of the month last year following Super Typhoon Yutu. <\/p>\n<p>Arrivals from Korea grew 4,873% in the month to 26,408 visitors, higher than even November 2017. Asiana Airlines added a daily daytime flight beginning on Oct. 27 that will continue through late March 2020. Also, T\u2019Way Air began a second daily daytime flights to Saipan on Nov. 21, which will also continue through late March 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Arrivals from China increased to 9,675 visitors in November to mark a 303% increase compared to 2018, but a 40% decline compared to 2017, which had 16,168 visitors. China is being hurt by the trade war with the United States; the country\u2019s third-quarter economic growth slowed more than expected to 6% year-on-year, marking its weakest pace in almost three decades. In China\u2019s traditional low season for outbound tourism, the market is also suffering from continued tension in Hong Kong, a tightened parole policy visa-free travel to the Marianas for Chinese tourists, and a continuing high exchange rate. In order to reduce costs, major charter flight operators cut capacity between Chinese cities to Saipan in November, and more cuts are planned for December 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Visitor arrivals from Japan grew 713% to 1,025 visitors in November on the wings of daily, direct flights launched by Skymark Airlines on Nov. 29 from Tokyo-Narita to Saipan. Skymark is offering promotional rates starting at $38 one-way plus fuel surcharge and tax. Approximately 40,000 visitors are expected from Japan in fiscal year 2020, based on 80% load factor on scheduled flights; this compares to 12,000 visitors from the source market in fiscal year 2019. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Economic highlights <\/strong><br \/>\nAccording to Statistics Korea, South Korea\u2019s consumer prices rose 0.2% in November, marking the first gain in four months. The November reading followed zero growth in October and the first negative inflation rate in September that had sparked fears of deflation; however, the November inflation rate was below market expectations. The average U.S. dollar\/won exchange rate in November was 1,188.92 won, an increase from the previous rate of 1,186.40 won in October. <\/p>\n<p>In China in October 2019, the consumer price index increased by 3.8% year-on-year. According to Euromonitor International, China is expected to suffer more than the U.S. in outbound tourism over the next five years under a scenario of a heightening trade war between the world\u2019s two largest economies. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrivals to the islands of Saipan, Tinian and Rota increased 610% to 39,717 visitors in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":309809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314225","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=314225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}