FOCUS: Northern Marianas seeks to revive tourism amid stopped China flights

The Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory in the Pacific, is struggling to revive its main tourism industry to pre-COVID levels three years after the lifting of travel restrictions, amid suspended direct flights from mainland China due to an air travel dispute with the United States.While the number of tourists to Saipan and other islands in the self-governing territory is recovering, largely due to the return of South Korean visitors, its tourism authority reports that the number of visitors in fiscal 2023 was only 46 percent of the level seen in fiscal 2019, before the pandemic.The s…READ FULL ARTICLE