Tourism

...The Hawaii Legislature suspended its 2020 session in early March because of the coronavirus situation, but eventually it will get back to business....

...The Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) has announced that the Honolulu Zoo was granted accreditation by AZA’s independent Accreditation Commission....

...Herd Immunity or Containment through Test and Trace?....

...life before COVID....

...the job count will average 11% lower than 2019 for the year as a whole, and real income will be more than 3% lower. Visitor arrivals for the year will be down an astounding 41%....

...More than one in four jobs in Nevada, Hawaii and Wyoming are at risk....

"...The only way to contain community spread of the virus is to impose a shelter-in-place directive upon all persons in Hawaii...."

...Airline to focus on returning guests home ahead of Hawai‘i’s March 26 quarantine....

...Governor Ige’s 14-day quarantine announcement may feel like a health precaution, but it's really a tourism marketing plan....

“...With the majority of Hawaiʻi’s COVID-19 cases linked to travel, it is critical that we further mitigate the spread of the virus by both residents and visitors who are coming from out-of-state....”

...This plan identifies three levels of risk: 1) Limited community transmission, 2) Sustained community transmission, 3) Widespread community transmission....

..."In order for it to not just ravage our community and start having massive community spread, we need to stop people bringing it into the state"....

...All classes of Hawai‘i hotel properties statewide reported higher RevPAR and ADR in February compared to a year ago....

...A public request to enact stronger measures of social distancing across Hawaiʻi....

...per visitor, per stay charges the money from which goes to protect and preserve the environment....

...Testimony on proposed minimum-wage increase....

...In the past two weeks, things have changed markedly, and a SARS-type V-shaped path is now too optimistic.... 

...the Department of Taxation, is behind a few of them....

...February 26-29: Nawiliwili, Honolulu, Lahaina, Hilo....

...“We should hold off on ‘nice-to-have’ projects like construction at Blaisdell Center and focus on fiscal prudence,” said Pine....

...The average daily census of total visitors in the Hawaiian Islands on any given day in January was 269,421, up 2.0 percent....

...In January 2020, the total monthly supply of statewide vacation rentals was 797,300 unit nights....

...While visitor arrivals racked up another record year in 2019, real visitor spending fell last year as international spending languished. And now the coronavirus rears its ugly head....

...Experienced aviators Rick Rogers and Bill Enoka have been identified as the two killed at Dillingham Airfield Saturday, February 22, 2020, when their Cessna crashed on takeoff.  Captain Rogers forwarded this letter to media outlets Wednesday, February 19, 2020.... 

...Airplane in deadly Mokuleia crash involved in another incident 7 years ago....

...Will 2020 be the year of an Hawaii Airport Corporation?....

...the U.S. Army got unexpected news from the DOT on Jan. 23....

...U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today released a fact sheet highlighting information the committee received from whistleblowers....

...FAA bosses twice denied him travel authorizations to visit the helicopter company, making it next to impossible to perform adequate FAA oversight....

...House Bill 2728 implements a $5 surcharge for all overseas flights except for interisland travel....

...On average, there were 249,021 visitors in the Hawaiian Islands on any given day in 2019, up 3.0 percent from 2018....

...how much will Kona Coast billionaires contribute to these 'non-profits'?....

...Couples in Hawaii spent $37,827 in 2018....

...U.S. air-safety regulators likely acted improperly in the way they authorized Southwest Airlines Co. to begin flights between California and Hawaii last year....

...“A pilot flying his eighth 50-minute tour in one day. Without instrument certification and flying in a rough and variable terrain, rapidly changing weather environment, on visual flight rules only (solely what he could see).  According to a close-by witness and other observations, probably in ‘20 ft visibility in rain and fog.’ No flight tracking equipment aboard....

...ultimately, it comes down to how far do those retirement dollars go....

...On Saturday the 28th of December, a museum closed its doors for the final time....

...Hawaii has seen 18 civilian helicopter crashes in the last five years....

...After failing in the Legislature four times, maybe the fifth time will be the charm....

...and tourist spending is up 3.4%....

...On O‘ahu, the vacation rental supply in November was 252,000 unit nights. This is a decrease of 4.4 percent from a year ago....

...First they came for the owners of million-dollar homes, but I didn’t speak against it because I didn’t have a million-dollar home....

...The bill would classify bed and breakfast homes and other transient vacation rental units as “hotel and resort” for property tax purposes....

...a civil fine of $20,000 plus $10,000 per day for each day the unlawful operation persists....

...The cooperative agreement between the zoo and the Zoo Society hampered roles and responsibilities.... 

...One of the most visible features of what has been called a “new day” for Hā’ena State Park and the adjacent Nāpali Coast State Wilderness Park, is the presence of park rangers....

...Follow-Up on Recommendations from Report No. 05-02, Audit of Selected Management Issues of the Honolulu Liquor Commission....

...only one study in eight considered the limitations of the computer model used in a flood damage analysis....

...Hawaiian Airlines Flight Attendants today voted 99.9 percent to authorize a strike, with 95.1 percent participating....

...How the 20 next-largest U.S. airports performed in 15 categories....