Tourist numbers in the Northern Marianas have continued to revive and breached the half-a-million mark in fiscal year 2016.
According to the Marianas Visitors Authority, visitor arrivals to Saipan, Tinian, and Rota reached 501,000.
That amounts to a 4.5-percent increase compared to the fiscal year 2015.
It marks the first year since 2005 that visitor arrivals to the CNMI surpassed the 500,000 mark.
Asian tourists on a CNMI beach Photo: RNZ / Mark Rabago
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