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Big Island: How To Keep Tourists Coming After The Eruption
Millions of dollars are being spent to promote non-volcanic attractions, but some of them aren’t equipped to handle more visitors.
Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2019
Kailua Crash Puts Hawaii’s Copter Tours Under A Microscope
Regulators are updating the one flight manual that governs the state’s air tours, but the public won’t get to participate.
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Vacation Rentals On Oahu May Face Tough Enforcement And New Limits
Airbnb says bills before the Honolulu City Council could cause economic damage by suddenly removing many tourist rentals from the market.
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Addicted To Airbnb: Hawaii’s Tourism Economy Depends On Illegal Vacation Rentals
While calls for a crackdown on short-term rentals grow louder, their rapid expansion accounts for a big chunk of the recent growth in the state’s largest industry.
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Selling An ‘Unreal’ Hawaii
A Bishop Museum exhibit shows how tourism promoters created an exotic and lustful version of the islands that never really existed — and the toll that took on Hawaii’s identity and Native Hawaiian culture.
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Chad Blair: Things Are Actually Looking Up At Honolulu Airport
Modernization of Daniel K. Inouye International has been years in coming. But real change is in the air.
Cory Lum/Civil Beat
Thousands Poised To Strike At Some Of Waikiki’s Biggest Hotels
The union vote could lead to a work stoppage by about 3,500 workers, including those at the Royal Hawaiian, Westin Moana Surfrider and Sheraton Waikiki.
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Holy Mackerel, With No Tourists In Sight The Fish Are Returning To Kauai’s North Shore
Local fishermen say the impact of the April storm on tourism has been a boon to the fish population.
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For Tourists Only: This Hawaii Wedding Venue Won’t Host Locals
Some wedding venues only accept destination weddings to limit the number of guests and the effect on neighbors.
Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat/2018
More Victims Of The Kauai Flood — Tourist Vacation Rentals
Kauai County had already cracked down on hundreds of remote visitor rentals. The flood might have doomed many more.