Northern Mariana Islands Travel News

November 2009 visitor arrivals to the Northern Mariana Islands were down 29 percent compared to November 2008, a mark of low travel demand in the month, as well as continuing economic dampeners in primary markets.

Delegate Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan introduced legislation yesterday creating a fellowship program named in honor the late Comonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands educator Rita Hocog Inos.

Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan says the U.S. State Department will offer expedited processing of U.S. visa for crew members of airlines signed on to the new visa waiver program for the Northern Mariana Islands.

Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo has written to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to address the recent cancellation of commercial flights between China and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Foreign investors who buy, sell or hold a direct or indirect interest in agricultural lands in the United States are required under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act to report their holdings and transactions to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands - SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands a ' Officials in Saipan have identified the gunman involved in a deadly rampage as 42-year-old Li Zhongren of China .

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or CNMI, is a chain of 14 islands in the north-west Pacific.

Second part of a series That was how the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Inspector General capsulized the health care condition in the insular areas, including the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in a scathing report last year.

Palau Minister of State Sandra Pierantozzi confirmed yesterday that the island nation's consulate offices on Guam and in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands will close next month because of a funding shortage.

"My heart is still here." That is how strongly Kwang Joong "KJ" Kim feels about the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands that has bestowed on him this week the title of honorary tourism ambassador.

The Marianas Visitors Authority is hoping recent trips by large groups of students from Japan is marking the return of school groups as fears of H1N1 are allayed.

NS Homeshopping cable station and tour company JAUTOUR of Korea visited the Northern Mariana Islands last week to film a television commercial advertising travel packages to this tropical resort destination.

Previous Next Track and windspeed of Tropical depression Twentythree Tropical depression Twentythree is forecast to strike the Northern Mariana Islands as a tropical storm at about 00:00 GMT on 27 October.

Tourists from the People's Republic of China and Russia can visit the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for up to 45 days through a visa-waiver parole program that will take effect on Nov.

The group, led by its principal Kenji Muramatsu, arrived here on Monday on a chartered flight for a cultural exchange program.

Casino investors are buying up hotel properties on Rota, the second-largest island of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in hopes of attracting military gamblers once the U.S. increases its presence in nearby Guam.

U.S. Rep. Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan arrived in Guam Saturday night and was scheduled to return to the Northern Mariana Islands yesterday.

THE Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands admits that competing with other tourist destinations like Guam and Hawaii is a oedifficult,a and it expects local hotel occupancy rate to further decrease after federalization.

The Northern Mariana Islands has been cashing in on the first-ever "Silver Week" holiday in Japan.

Nominations for the Marianas Visitors Authority's first Tourism Industry Excellence Awards are beginning to trickle in, as the visitors authority prepares to recognize individuals and organizations for advancing tourism this year.