Hawaii should learn from Japan to discourage tourism to continue
Visitors are still arriving in Hawaii on a daily basis. Governor Ige and Honolulu Mayor Caldwell were unable to seal this inbound flow of airline passengers.
Residents had plenty of time to return home, the requirements for visitors to stay in their hotel rooms for 2 weeks is not aggressively enforced and not a guarantee to keep COVID-19 out. By the time visitors arrive in their hotel, taxi drivers, front desk staff and airline staff may have been exposed already.
Would visitors and residents still arrive in Honolulu, Maui, Kauai or Hawaii Island if they are required to stay in a cardboard box instead of a resort hotel?
Perhaps Hawaii can learn from Japan. All passengers arriving in Japan at Tokyo Narita airport among others are tested for Coronavirus upon landing. Tokyo Narita Airport baggage claim has become a cardboard box hotel for arriving international passengers, awaiting their coronavirus test result.
The cost for travelers to stay in the boxes is 15,000 yen (US$140).
The encouraging situation is that even returning Japanese citizens have the same requirement.
