(MVA) — Over 70 travel agents, media representatives, and other key industry partners in Japan recently learned the latest destination details about the Marianas at a Marianas Seminar conducted by Marianas Visitors Authority on Tuesday, May 14.
MVA organized the seminar in Tokyo to provide details about Saipan, Tinian and Rota, with the goal of generating new Marianas products and new media coverage to attract more Japanese travelers to the destination.
“The Marianas Seminar is an important opportunity for us to meet face-to-face with the travel trade professionals who sell and promote the Marianas,” said MVA Managing Director Christopher A. Concepcion. “While trade shows allow us to meet thousands of individuals, our Marianas Seminar also gives our destination the undivided attention of attendees and allows us to answer all their questions and establish and reaffirm important trade relationships.”
Gov. Arnold I. Palacios personally welcomed attendees to the seminar. The event covered updates about the market, including flight service; MVA’s marketing activities, including its new marketing campaign to be launched tentatively in June focusing on four pillars: Community, Nature, Mindfulness, and Immersive or CNMI. Details were also shared about various promotional campaigns, MVA annual signature events like this month’s Taste of the Marianas International Food Festival, and new tourism infrastructure such as the Garapan Revitalization Project.
Governor Palacios and MVA representatives were interviewed at the seminar and reception by Marine Creative/Marine Diving Web, Travel Wing, Travel Journal, and Kateigaho.
Direct service from Tokyo to Saipan is provided by United Airlines three times a week. United Airlines also provided two roundtrip airline tickets for a raffle at the seminar.
Gov. Arnold I. Palacios welcomes travel trade and media representatives to the Marianas Seminar organized by the Marianas Visitors Authority on May 14, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan.
Over 70 travel trade and media representatives learn about Saipan, Tinian, and Rota at the Marianas Seminar organized by the Marianas Visitors Authority on May 14, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan.
Indigenous Carolinian dancers of the Marianas welcome attendees of the Marianas Seminar organized by the Marianas Visitors Authority on May 14, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan.
Gov. Arnold I. Palacios, seated center, foreground, leads the Marianas delegation in sharing information about the destination with travel trade and media representatives at the Marianas Seminar organized by the Marianas Visitors Authority on May 14, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan.
Travel trade industry media Wing Travel Daily features the Marianas in their May 17, 2024, issue following the Marianas Seminar organized by the Marianas Visitors Authority on May 14, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. The seminar attracted over 70 travel trade and media industry partners to learn about Saipan, Rota, and Tinian.
