New MVA chairwoman: Keeping community safe is priority

Viola Alepuyo
“We are working very hard to resume tourism safely,” she added, referring to the Torres-Palacios administration, MVA management and staff, the CNMI Covid-19 task force, the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers, the recently created Tourism Resumption Investment Program or TRIP led by Commonwealth Ports Authority Chairwoman Kimberlyn King-Hinds and other tourism-related stakeholders both in the CNMI and abroad.
Asked about the anticipated challenges of restarting tourism, Alepuyo said, “The devil is in the details.”
“Anybody can say we are going to have tourism restarted, but how do you go about doing it?” she asked. “There is still a lot work that needs to be done, a lot of i's to dot and  t's to cross, and we have to do all of this in compliance with CNMI and federal laws and in conjunction with the laws and regulations that our destination partners must follow. Fortunately, we have a lot of industry partners who are very capable and just as motivated to get our tourism industry restarted.”

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