Viola Alepuyo
âWe are working very hard to resume tourism safely,â she added, referring to the Torres-Palacios administration, MVA management and staff, the CNMI Covid-19 task force, the Governorâs 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, âThe devil is in the details.â
âAnybody can say we are going to have tourism restarted, but how do you go about doing it?â she asked. âThere 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 ver