Where is Hawaii headed next following so much debate? We want to hear your vision for Hawaii tourism.
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Where is Hawaii headed next following so much debate? We want to hear your vision for Hawaii tourism.
My goal is to move to the Big Island, to live and to work. Hopefully help make it a better place as well by getting involved with the community. I really hope people continue to visit the islands, but really understand how special they are. To understand its history and its culture. And when they come, I hope they respect and take care of the islands environment and when they leave I hope they spread the Aloha spirit back home. The world needs more Aloha.
The Eddie and the Aikau family are perfect example of sending the Aloha spirit to the world…do a story on that Ohana.🤙🌊🌈
Aloha See You Soon.
Just returned from a month-long stay visiting friends and family. I was met with warm aloha everywhere. Learned long ago that if “you give, you get.” Some local residents may feel that tourists do not always respect Hawaiian culture and traditions or may view them as an invasion of their personal space or way of life. Many local residents also appreciate the economic benefits that tourism brings and enjoy sharing their culture and way of life with visitors. Attitudes towards tourism can vary and depend on factors such as individual experiences and perspectives. Visitors should be respectful of local culture and traditions, and practice responsible tourism to minimize negative impacts on the environment and local communities.
The comments I read here are the exact reason people loathe tourists. Rather than questioning the reasons that residents are unhappy with tourism, the visitors blame the locals for the current situation. The truth is that most locals do not “love money”, in fact most just want to live with some amount of peace and afford a roof over their head, which the current situation is preventing. Yes, it’s shameful that there are locals that commit crimes and leave trash, that would be a very few locals that do this. Some have been made homeless and pushed to crime because tourism and investors have taken over so much of our housing. Residents would love for better resources in Hawaii but politicians have other agendas and they “love money”.
I was referring to a subset. My object of criticism was the writer. I live in public housing on Kauai. You’re not looking if you don’t see that attitude I described in plenty local braddahs. Most people are nice though.
They dont love $!???
Then why do they flock to Vegas?
Because the drinks are free. Or do you actually believe that most people who go to Vegas make money?
Hawaii does Not want American tourists especially given the entitlement, selfishness and emboldened rudeness of people in the modern day USA. What Hawaiians need is far less people visiting the island – it’s simply does not have the infrastructure to sustain and support current volume today. To keep the island and its residents financially secure however they should focus on what their Island can produce and contribute to the American or even global economy and move away from tourism. Alternatively, the island and all its businesses can jack the prices up like they have and push out the lower and middle income tourists thereby catering to the upper crust of society and elite. Not sure that’s a good thing either LOL
Certainly it won’t help with the “entitlement” issue …
Thank you for your insight. I was born in Hawaii and left before all the “capitalism” occurred and left to return nearly 50 yrs later. Looking at this beautiful place that once had so much coral reef, flowers naturally growing everywhere, now looking baron unless your in the “expensive tourist areas”. The smell of heavy over used sun screen as tourist are dropped of shore to venture out like a carnival ride. I speak from the deepest parts of my soul..this land has felt the energy of “taking” over use and abuse. The land wasn’t meant to be treated this way. Hawaii was thrown into a circus it never wanted to be apart of.
Hi, I went to Hawaii for three months this last year, to spend time with a very dear friend of mine who was at the end of his journey. It I must say was the best experience of my life. I met a lot of beautiful people there. That I will always hold dear to me. I know they will with out a doubt make sure I have everything I need when I return. Their door is forever opened for me. I feel like that’s what you are wanting to see more of. And I get it because tourist try to hard to fit in instead of just being themselves. I learned a lot in that 3 months, because I shut my mouth and opened my mind and my heart! I also respected the fact that I was a visitor in there home, their back yard, I believe Hawaiians just want visitors to have respect!
Tourism ruined Waikiki. Who needs a Louie Vuitton on every corner or a Cheesecake Factory. We have all that in the states.
I lived in Oahu 50 years ago. We just came to see it again and one of our favorite places was the International Market Place with all the vendors who were Hawaiian. Now a Tesla dealership and other high end stores are there. WHY???
I know 80% of population lives on this island and the traffic shows. 20 min to go 5 miles is daunting.
I lived in Makiki and I could see the ocean from my Lanai. Now all you can see are skyscrapers side by side, each one taller than the other.
It no longer looks like Hawaii. It looks like New York City.
You are saddened by the demise of the International Marketplace and its replacement with a Tesla dealership? Call and complain to the Queen Emma Land Company; they own and lease that land (and much of the land in Waikiki). And they’re about as “local” as there is.
Exactly! Mahalo, and who allowed Saks to bail and Target to arrive?
Sounds like tradition to me!!
Hawaii sells tourisim because it cost too much to pick pineapples and harvest sugar. The state decided a one trick pony being tourism was the golden egg. They aren’t wrong. Enjoy the tax dollars. Its keeping property taxes low. And stop blaming out of state property owners who rent and pay the bulk, almost triple the tax.
You make it very clear that you don’t like poor visitors. My first encounter with a local 16 years ago went as follows- “You got money?” Then you better go back where you came from.” The locals love of money is what cost the islands all the degradation and is no more morally acceptable than anybody else’s love of money.
I have been 3 times to Oahu. Loved every minute, every time.
Although the last time (2015)
I missed the Market on Kalakaua
Missed the Lei makers on the beach, miss the arrival Lei, and the music in the elevators.
Too much building around Wakiki
….but I would still do back