{"id":316755,"date":"2020-02-03T06:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=316755"},"modified":"2020-02-03T06:04:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T20:04:34","slug":"ipi-outbreak-impacts-flow-of-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ipi-outbreak-impacts-flow-of-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"IPI: Outbreak impacts flow of customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus outbreak in China is having an impact on the flow of customers at the Imperial Palace Saipan in Garapan, according to the company that owns it, Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Saipan Tribune\u2019s request for comments about the coronavirus\u2019 impact, IPI said yesterday that, although there\u2019s an impact on the number of their customers from China, they are also seeing an increase in Korean and Japanese customers.<\/p>\n<p>IPI attributes this increase in their number of Japanese customers to the new direct flights from Japan through Skymark Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>IPI said they are working with the Marianas Visitors Authority and other partners to promote Saipan and the Imperial Pacific Resort in Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Most of IPI\u2019s casino customers are Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Sichuan Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, and Beijing Capital Airlines have suspended flights to the CNMI this February due to the coronavirus outbreak. There is no indication yet on until when the outbreak will last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus outbreak in China is having an impact on the flow of customers at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316755","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}