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MVA wants shorter Taste of Rota period
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Posted on Feb 27 2006
The Marianas Visitors Authority prefers cutting the month-long Taste of Rota festivity to a weekend or two to ensure “cost-effectiveness.”
“We need to cut it down. Maybe it can be done on the first week or last week, but not every week,” said MVA board chair Marian Aldan-Pierce during a board meeting yesterday.
MVA marketing director Wayne Pangelinan said that based on an evaluation, “we feel that we should try to change the concept and focus on one weekend prior to the fiesta.”
The Rota municipal government held last September a month-long event, Taste of Rota, leading up to its October island fiesta.
“They want to do it again but we feel that we should not do something in that magnitude,” said Pangelinan.
He said it can be something like the Hot Pepper Festival on Tinian.
Meantime, MVA board member JM Deleon Guerrero said that MVA should tap volunteers when holding events such as Taste of Marianas rather than having the entire MVA staff work during those occasions.
“We need to cut staff hours,” he said.
He said MVA can tap student volunteers.
MVA board chair Marian Aldan-Pierce agreed with this suggestion.
