{"id":403724,"date":"2024-01-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=403724"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Bellisima-to-visit-Saipan-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Bellisima-to-visit-Saipan-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellisima to visit Saipan today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan community is set to see the arrival of Japan-based cruise ship <em>Bellisima,<\/em> which is expected to bring in thousands of tourists to the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>Although the last few months have been slow in terms of Japanese tourism, numbers are expected to pick up with <em>Bellisima<\/em> making a port call today.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Commonwealth Ports Authority, <em>Bellisima<\/em> is expected to dock at the Port of Saipan at around 8am today.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, members of the CNMI community, including agencies like the Marianas Visitors Authority, the Saipan Chamber of Commerce, the Hotel Association of the NMI, and more are expected to hold a welcoming ceremony for the ship\u2019s passengers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bellisima<\/em> is a nine-day Japanese cruise that starts off at Yokohama with its stop overs being Guam and then Saipan before heading back up to Yokohama.<\/p>\n<p>The cruise left Yokohama on Dec. 30, with its passengers celebrating the New Year near the Northern Islands.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/dea9fdecf3f54e2260899e936f977854.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Bellisima<\/em> is a nine-day Japanese cruise that starts off at Yokohama with its stop overs being Guam and then Saipan before heading back up to Yokohama.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan community is set to see the arrival of Japan-based cruise ship Bellisima, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403724","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\/403724","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}