All sides of the issues addressed, on the return of Hawaii tourism, in today’s post.
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All sides of the issues addressed, on the return of Hawaii tourism, in today’s post.
Comments are closed.
Visitors: Please stay home. This is not the time to come here. Respect our residents. Thank you.
I read the same comment that the people of Hawaii wanted the tourists to stay home. I visit Hawaii at least once or twice a year and it is a beautiful welcoming place. I did not take it that they did not want us to come. They just want to be safe and keep the Coronavirus off their islands. Everyone wants this to end and for all of us to feel safe to be able to travel to the islands again
It’s good that some people are aware of the isolation of Hawaii. These are small islands (and in some ways still a nation) and can’t be compared to the continent. In the opinion of many tourism has already reached a tipping point. Just too many. Hawaii has planned poorly,depending too much on the tourism industry and failing to diversify the economy.
This is a special place and should be respected. It seems that some appreciate that and that’s appreciated.
We booked a condo in Maui for end of July but we aren’t sure about purchasing air tickets. Do you feel things will be back for tourism by that time? Thanks
Hi Bob.
We should know much more within a couple of weeks. Please check back.
Aloha.
This is a crazy time for everyone. That will hopefully pass soon. I completely understand no tourism for Hawaii right now. They aren’t equipped to handle a mass out break. I had reservations for Maui in May and cancelled them. I rebooked for mid August. Hopefully I will be sitting on one of Maui’s beautiful beaches and sipping a cocktail. After being confined in my house for two months and counting a vacation to Maui will be heaven. Aloha
We escape Colorado and come to Kauai every year in February, always at Kiahuna, and have already booked for 2021. It is sad to get on the Sheraton website and see maybe only two or three locals in the water. That being said, we can understand the precautions, and wholeheartedly agree with them. The islands will open up again, but probably with a lot of restrictions until a vaccine is available, which most likely won’t be until next year. In the meantime, our hearts go out to the locals, since so many of them are dependent on the tourists. We wonder about the restaurant employees- Keoki’s, Bubba’s Burgers, Puka Dogs, Merriman’s, Kiawe Roots, our favorite first morning breakfast place, the Little Fish Coffee, and a slew of others. And the excursion companies like Capt Andy’s. We hope they are managing, and waiting to welcome the vacationers back with open arms.
Without having to read through all this, do the people of Maui and Oahu like our two families to visit starting June 1st (there are eight of us, two sets of parents and teens) or stay away due to capacity concerns ? It is getting very close to travel day and if it is better we not go, we need to start looking into hotel, car and air tix refunds (if that is even possible).
Thankx
And hope we kick this wicked vi rus to the ground ASAP
Hi JWI.
We’ll cut to the chase too. The answer is unknown right now. We expect to know more by early May.
Aloha.
Aloha, also. We are praying for the ability to travel to the islands.
I live in Las Vegas, the premier tourist and business convention city in the country. We shut down our tourism by shutting down the casinos, hotels (except for essential work), restaurants, etc. We didn’t need to restrict flying to the city, we just made it dang hard if they did. No fourteen day quar antine. Your quar antine affects me, I’ve been self-isolating with my wife since early February. We follow all the guidelines if we have to go out (groceries, medical). I’ve had two flights on Hawaiian Air cancelled. We are trying to move to the islands and are in limbo waiting to sell our home and because we can’t fly to Hawaii, we can’t find the land we want and finalize any construction to build a new home. We are patiently waiting though and just want certainty when we do arrange our flights again.
Nancy, with any issue it is best to read and critically think about why the restrictions are in place and how they came to be. The very first cases on Kauai came from an Indiana couple who knew they had been exposed before they got here and chose to come anyway. All of our 21 cases have been travel related except one that the medical people cannot trace where it came from and is being treated as community spread. We have aprox 12 ICU on Kauai. Some of the travelers who came did not know they had the vi rus but developed it by the time they got here. Let’s turn this around. Would you want to be exposed even unknowingly by serving someone in a restaurant or helping them with their luggage or going out to visit with them if they then came down with the vi rus and you did, too? And then you went to the hospital and were told they couldn’t take you because there were no beds? This is critically thinking about the issue before making a proclamation that “HI thinks it’s better than another state”. Being better or not is an irrelevant issue. The practicalities of limited medical facilities and being on an island with limited ability to leave are the scientific and realistic reasons why these rules were put in place. Please think before you make an emotional accusation and only make an accusation based on fact and after assessing the situation. The two visitors from Indiana either didn’t think about what they were doing or were too selfish to care. Either reason caused harm to many people and this is why Hawaii does not welcome visitors now. We all must do our part to avoid spreading the disease and keep from dying ourselves.
Aloha,
Tourists stay home for now. Let the people of the beautiful state of Hawaii be safe. They don’t need a bunch of tourists coming right now adding more stress to an already stressful situation we all are in. Sucks big time!
This will pass, and hopefully soon, and we all can get back to our lives.
I look back before this, and at times it seemed life was so mundane. I’ll gladly and gratefully take it back.
Sky’s are clearer, and nature is healing itself.
Rest people, stay safe, and take care of yourself, and others when needed. Be grateful, and loving.
Much love, and Peace 🌈
Ron
Phx, Az
We were so very disappointed with our cancelled May trip to Kauai but we called the two different rental agencies and asked to have the same places and the same dates in 2021. Our request was met with great mahalo from everyone concerned. Now we have a return to Kauai to look forward to again!
Please let everyone you know the good news that was just released.
If you Google, USC and Stanford antibody test results you will find incredible good news. The antibody tests demonstrate that about 50 times more people have had Coronavirus than previously thought.
This lowers the death rate to about 0.1% which according to the New York times is about the seasonal flu death rate. About 1 person in a 1000
who get infected. Thanks for looking at the studies, everyone needs to be informed.