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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
Marianas Visitors Authority chair Marian Aldan Pierce presides over a board meeting on Thursday.
Photo by Bryan Manabat
âBecause we did not get an approval from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the application was resubmitted,â Iakopo said, adding that the new tentative date is Feb. 5.
âWe hope to hear back from CDC as soon as possible,â she told the MVA board members.
MVAâs proposed travel bubble with South Korea will require visitors to get tested and undergo quarantine.
The board on Thursday also discussed the possibility of including Japan in the travel bubble.
Present in the board meeting were chair Marian Aldan-Pierce, vice chair Gloria Cavanagh, board members Christopher Nelson, Ivan Quichocho, Warren Villagomez, Thomas Liu, and Viola Alepuyo.