{"id":360913,"date":"2022-01-31T06:04:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T20:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=360913"},"modified":"2022-01-31T06:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T20:04:53","slug":"brian-shin-is-2021-business-person-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/brian-shin-is-2021-business-person-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Shin is 2021 Business Person of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
Brian Shin, chief executive officer of the Global Hotel Division of E-Land Group, shows the Saipan Chamber of Commerce\u2019s 2021 Business Person of the Year award he got last Saturday. (Joshua Santos)
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Brian Shin, who is chief executive officer of the Global Hotel Division of E-Land Group, is the Saipan Chamber of Commerce\u2019s 2021 Business Person of the Year. Shin received the award during SCC\u2019s \u201cBusiness Person of the Year Annual Gala\u201d last Saturday at Kensington Hotel Saipan\u2019s Kensington Hall. <\/p>\n

Shin, who was chosen to receive the award by its previous winners, was among six nominees in all, which included AB Risk Solutions operations manager Shayne Villanueva, 500 Sails cofounder and career nonprofit finance professional Emma Perez, Bank of Saipan CEO and president John Arroyo, Bridge Capital LLC general manager and vice president Bart Jackson, and TurnKey Solutions business co-owner Billy Grow. <\/p>\n

The announcement of the selection of the 2021 Business Person of the Year was the highlight of the \u201cCloaks & Tiaras\u201d gala that also saw the installation of the SCC\u2019s new officers and board members. The event also served as the SCC\u2019s largest annual fundraiser for SCC initiatives. <\/p>\n

In a later interview, Shin credits the entire E-Land for the award. \u201c[It\u2019s] not just me. \u2026Our company as E-Land never stopped improving or developing our products into better [ones],\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

As proof of that, Shin noted that the Kensington Hall where the gala was held was only built last year, while a sister-company, the Coral Ocean Resort Golf Course, reopened last year after an over two-year reconstruction period following damage caused by Super Typhoon Yutu. \u201cWe never stopped investing and getting ready for our tourists coming back,\u201d said Shin. <\/p>\n

E-Land operates three hotel properties in the CNMI: Kensington Hotel Saipan, Pacific Islands Club Saipan, and Coral Ocean Resort, with more than 500 employees.<\/p>\n

Shin said that E-Land played \u201ca fair amount of role\u201d in making the South Korea-CNMI travel bubble program possible, with Kensington Hotel Saipan serving as a hybrid-quarantine hotel and Pacific Islands Club Saipan eventually becoming a hybrid-quarantine hotel as well. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur company is trying to do different things under the circumstances to boost tourism as well as protecting the community from [COVID-19],\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Shin added that E-Land continues to be a part of the CNMI\u2019s ongoing efforts to keep the community safe from COVID-19 through running a quarantine facility, an initiative Shin said \u201cis still ongoing.\u201d <\/p>\n

When asked what he and E-Land would like to see in the near future, Shin simply said: More tourists. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty much what we\u2019re hoping, not just our company but everyone in the CNMI, is hoping to have tourism back. As long as we\u2019re doing what we\u2019re doing and promoting [the CNMI] as a safe destination\u2026I think we\u2019re in good shape,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to a BPOY nominee bio prepared by SCC, Shin came to Saipan in March 2020 as CEO of the Global Hotel Division. In this role, Shin oversaw the decision to operate PIC as a designated quarantine site in collaboration with the CNMI government, presented the initial framework of a Korean market \u201ctravel bubble\u201d to the Marianas Visitors Authority in December 2020, the reopening of COR in January 2021, and several other achievements since then. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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