Change had been brewing in Hawaii travel for years. Covid was the catalyst to fast-forward the inevitable.
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Change had been brewing in Hawaii travel for years. Covid was the catalyst to fast-forward the inevitable.
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Lower prices on housing, hotels, restaurants, rental cars, airfare.
Molokai shows the tourism/local economic choices in stark contrast. Change is constant, so why not focus on a balance that moves towards sustainable based growth w/support for the tech & literacy that is required to make it happen? Let people come, enjoy and not adversely hurt the environment. Do so utilizing the fundamentals of building sustainable/low cost, efficient infrastructure.
Letting greed from distant Business interests run over your home is wrong. So is a polar opposite head in the sa
Hawaii may achieve all of the reduced tourism it desires.
All Hawaii must exchange for a reduction in the numbers of tourist is for its residents to accept the resulting revenue reductions and step up to replace them from within.
Just continue to raise tourism related prices/taxes as the offset? Perhaps in a very short term and limited manner. Hawaii cannot unilaterally escape the economic model that holds tourism as a price sensitive commodity.
Having just visited Hawaii recently I was actually pleased with the amount of precautions and restrictions. I felt much safer dining out and being in public knowing that visitors can’t even leave the airport without proof of vaccination and negative tests. I wish my own hometown, state would take these same precautions.
When crafting regulations, fees, and laws regarding tourism all parties should be fair and consistent:
-Make all laws and fees apply uniformly for tourist and locals. “local” discounts at public facilities only confuse people and are widely abused.
-Remember, tourism supports 216,000 jobs and contribute almost 18 Billion to the local economy.
-Show our pride and love for the Islands and its people by acting responsibly. It is appalling to me that a local can steal a catalytic convertor (person
So, let’s not ignore the 800 pound elephant in the room here. The tourism industry in Hawaii has no interest in curbing the increase in tourists. They need to show increased profits every quarter, and that means more tourists than last quarter. Since that industry has a significant political influence, the solutions to the problem will be difficult for Hawaii to get past it’s politicians. The long term solution is to reduce Hawaii’s dependence on tourism.
Do not go to HI until all the draconian Covid rules are lifted. So many other places are open including FL, AZ and Mexico. Just got back from Cabo. It’s wonderful there! No testing because we walked across the border and back through CBX. Vote with your pocketbook and don’t put up with rules that no longer make sense.
Check. Thank you for not coming.
You’re certainly free to take your vacation wherever you feed comfortable. But the problem that’s being discussed is that Hawaii has too many tourists. this was a problem before the pandemic, and continues even now. So how do they address that? Certainly the anti-pandemic folks boycotting Hawaii isn’t solving the problem since travel to Hawaii is to near, or sometime above pre-pandemic levels.
I’m sure they are happy to not have people with your attitude.
It’s that kind of attitude that got the US to 50,000,000 cases and 800,000 deaths. Please do stay away from Hawaii I’m sure they will be pleased about that.
Wow, me, me, me anti rules that protect others. Probably not the type that gets Hawaii. Enjoy the other places.
Get rid of the VRBO and Air B&B which never existed 20 years ago, restrict travel accommodations to the resorts and existing hotels and you will see an automatic reduction of tourism, yet still have tourism. If people only owned homes to live in and not rent out, you would also see a resulting glut of housing become available to the people who actually live and work on the islands. Just my humble option.
That would also drive up the price of accommodations (supply vs demand) which would offset some of the lost revenue due to the reduction in the number of tourists. Like I said, fewer tourists that spend more…
You have to get rid of the super cheap flights at the same time.
The environment cannot sustain this level of over-tourism. Everything from the trash and sewage tourists generate, to traffic congestion, to ignorant tourists who harass seals and turtles, it really needs to be reduced if the environment is to remain in/be restored to a healthy state.
Hotel capacity strictly capped at present levels on all islands; ditto rental cars. Visiting Hawaii should be treated as a privilege, with pledges to respect wildlife, etc. and emphatic education before entry.
We’ve only made one trip to Oahu in 2016. During a bus tour of the island, we were alarmed at the piles of garbage, mattresses, tires, and furniture that were discarded on the side of the roads. It looked like a third-world country. I doubt that the tourists left those things behind. As I’ve said before, Hawaii is destined to become a playground for those that are wealthy and politically connected.
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