Articles tagged “hawaii”

After a few years of challenges, Hawaii is back on top with increased room occupancy, higher rates, higher spending by visitors, and more foreign visitors.

Hawaii wants to set aside the false traditions that have little to do with local culture, but this means educating young staff on their islands’ history to offer tourists a truly authentic visit.

Whether it's something soft-power related like soap operas in South Korea or Turkey, or something out of left field like hula, a destination can never control what visitors are going to love about it, but they should make it easy for visitors to indulge in it.

After recent cutbacks in flights, seat capacity is increasing and there's even hope that a low-cost carrier such as Southwest will take a serious glance at the islands.

The island's been run like a feudal land for so long, residents are understandably in limbo about their status after one mega-rich person passed along the island to another mega-rich person.

Hawaii needs to seek its tourism fortune to its west -- Japan, Korea, and China -- rather than depending on the U.S. mainland market to bounce back.

OK, it's not extra legroom. But give Hawaiian a bit of credit for serving something other than a turkey sandwich and half a can of RC cola.

Strong dollars in Canada and Australia, as well as wealth in China and Korea, are turning a year of good inbound numbers from mainland U.S. into a stellar one for the islands.

Quality of life and running a business should go hand-in-hand, but without regulations the demands of locals and the whims of tourists often collide so that nobody has fun.

Paradise isn't supposed to have rats. Hotels and resorts should consider teaming up to eradicate Waikiki's problem; who knows what wide ranging cooperation could do for the industry.