Month: August 2018

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A New Direction For Hawaii Tourism Management?

Scott Foster
The morning before the February 28, 2018, joint House & Senate Tourism Committee informational briefing on the 2018 state audit of the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA), the Honolulu Star-Advertiser headline read, “State Auditor Clasts HTA For Lax Oversight and Accountability.” The revealing and often combative legislative briefing lasted for over two hours. eTurboNews originally reported the story HERE Although the HTA later faced a potentially draconian cut to their $85+ million annual... Read More
Kauai helicopter tours News for Visitors 

Kauai helicopter tours: More choppers in the skies of aloha

Linda Hohnholz - editor
More Kauai helicopter tours are available since Maverick Helicopters has expanded operations to Hawaii’s northernmost and oldest island, Kauai. The expansion comes after three years of successful operations on Maui and will be the sixth permanent location. The breathtaking flights will depart daily from the company’s facility at Port Allen Airport, located along the southern shore of Kauai, minutes away from Poipu, Hawaii. “With the Garden Isle’s awe-inspiring geographical wonders only... Read More
Global news for Hawaii 

Seychelles Tourism: What is Hawaiian Poké you might well ask?

Juergen Steinmetz
Seychelles, an island nation in the Indian Ocean this week explained what Hawaiian Poke is, and both residents and visitors to Seychelles love it. Similar to Hawaii, the Seychelles largest industry is travel and tourism. This Hawaii Tourism Promotion in Seychelles is unique, it's free and cuisine is about bringing cultures and also tourism together. Here is the article that appeared in the Saint Ange Reoport in Victoria, Seychelles today: What... Read More
Hawaii Tourism News 

Overtourism Hawaii: Economist Paul H. Brewbaker speaks out

Juergen Steinmetz
The negative externalities--in economics, unintended, uncompensated costs of one economic activity on another--associated with excessive recreational and other natural resource uses (and perhaps arguably a consequence of tourism-induced host cultural dilution, about which I have nothing to say), including ocean recreational resources, inland trails and natural areas, and more abstractly the nexus between upland watershed, forest resources, and coastal and marine resources, alterations to one of which may affect the others,... Read More