Read what Hawaii Tourist Authority CEO wants and how that fits with the latest study of visitor trends.
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Read what Hawaii Tourist Authority CEO wants and how that fits with the latest study of visitor trends.
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Interesting plan considering:
worst inflation (7%) in 40 years;
investment market bubble leaking;
airlines considering 7%/mo. increases;
Hawaii’s restrictive visitation policies;
labor shortages;
island lodging cost increases.
High cost may mean Hawaii is a lifetime “one and done” for families. In time this lack of returning tourist will will decay Hawaii’s tourism while rewarding newer less expensive destinations that everyday families more easily afford.
Fascinating bet on us oldies.
I wouldn’t mind paying more if it went directly to helping Native hawaiian people and securing their land!
Rather than rely on Expedia’s Travel Value Index, why not examine the survey you fill out upon arriving in HI? I think you’ll find there’s a vast number of repeat travelers. What is it the State is trying to do? They imply HI is overrun with tourists, yet they want to raise prices to draw wealthier clientele. Do we not spend enough money? Why not just put in a casino while they’re at it.
I’m trying to verbalize (in written form) what I expect or at least want from a Hawaiian vacation.
1. Good weather
2. Warm water, full of pretty fish and honu to take pictures of as I snorkel around.
3. Beautiful scenery
4. Poke’
5. Whales, at the right time of the year.
6. Someplace comfortable to sleep where I don’t feel I need to take out a second mortgage on my house each night.
Oahu – lived there.
Maui – been there, want to go back
Big Island – see Maui
Kauai – really want to go back
Their thinking (Hawaii) sounds very basic to me. From what I have seen over the years, a large percentage of visitors have been people who have returned year after year. Those people very much know how they want to spend their time and money. However, that could also be because of were we stay and go and we don’t see much of any other kind of life style other than people who have returned. My thinking is that many of the first timers go to the big resorts.
Aloha Guys
Thanks for your newsletter, I’ve been relying on it for a few years now when planning our trips. We’re coming next month, but it’s likely our last annual visit for a few years. We travel from the mid-west and while that’s usually been fine, it just has been a major hassle the last two years. Starting next year we’ll head to the Caribbean for our winter trip. Love Hawaii, and will miss it. We’ll be back when the airlines once again have reasonable routes from the mid-west.
Hi Kevin.
Thanks for your first-time comment. Happy travels wherever you go.
Aloha.
We’re already paying more for everything. Unlikely that a trip to Hawaii would be different. I did not read anything about the change in attitudes towards tourism. If it does come back stronger than ever, what will that do to the relationship between visitors and locals? More hostility, more non-resident only charges? What will that do to long term tourism?
People do want to travel and are traveling. Does this study make any projections or predictions
on the longer term?
Thanks guys!
Hi Skip.
Thanks for your many comments! It is hard to see here, on the ground, how attitudes towards tourism will evolve. More non-resident charges, definitely.
Aloha.
This year will be our last trip. The prices have gotten ridiculous and it is just too much of a hassle to jump thru all the hoops so we will trade our two week timeshare to go somewhere else where they actually want us. Aloha Kauai, we will miss you after 40 years.
Mahalo
Staffing here on the Big Island is still really bad. Because of the lack of employees Kona Brewery has been closed a couple of times in the last week. This is happening with the bulk of the holiday crowd gone.
If I were a tourist I would not want to spend hard earned dollars waiting in lines at restaurants. Most restaurants here on the BI do not take reservations so you have to wait hours to get service.
Us residents would love for more people to be working so service would be quicker.
So sick of spin from the Gov to the HTA. Especially HTA who has mismanaged their charge.