The Marianas Visitors Authority prefers cutting the month-long Taste of Rota festivity to a weekend or two to ensure \u201ccost-effectiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to cut it down. Maybe it can be done on the first week or last week, but not every week,\u201d said MVA board chair Marian Aldan-Pierce during a board meeting yesterday.<\/p>\n
MVA marketing director Wayne Pangelinan said that based on an evaluation, \u201cwe feel that we should try to change the concept and focus on one weekend prior to the fiesta.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Rota municipal government held last September a month-long event, Taste of Rota, leading up to its October island fiesta.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey want to do it again but we feel that we should not do something in that magnitude,\u201d said Pangelinan.<\/p>\n
He said it can be something like the Hot Pepper Festival on Tinian. <\/p>\n
Meantime, MVA board member JM Deleon Guerrero said that MVA should tap volunteers when holding events such as Taste of Marianas rather than having the entire MVA staff work during those occasions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to cut staff hours,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said MVA can tap student volunteers.<\/p>\n
MVA board chair Marian Aldan-Pierce agreed with this suggestion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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