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9 Charts That Show How Hawaii Tourism Is Changing Cory Lum/Civil Beat

9 Charts That Show How Hawaii Tourism Is Changing

From soaring numbers of visitors to declining rounds of golf, a by-the-numbers look at how the industry’s impacts have grown in Hawaii.

10 Million Visitors: Can Hawaii Survive Its Own Popularity?

10 Million Visitors: Can Hawaii Survive Its Own Popularity?

The impact of a growing army of tourists has government leaders and residents questioning how to better manage Hawaii’s largest industry.

Mainland Mayors Face Backlash For Business Trip To Honolulu Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Mainland Mayors Face Backlash For Business Trip To Honolulu

The criticism highlights a longstanding perception problem Hawaii has in attracting conferences and conventions.

Kauai’s Newly Reopened Park Is A Case Study In Controlling Tourism Courtesy: DLNR

Kauai’s Newly Reopened Park Is A Case Study In Controlling Tourism

Crowd control measures at the renovated Haena State Park will help state parks officials respond to staggering tourism growth.

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: Welcome To Hawaii — Now Show Some Respect Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: Welcome To Hawaii — Now Show Some Respect

The islands have the same challenge as other major tourist destinations — preserving what it is that attracts visitors in the first place.

Big Island: How To Keep Tourists Coming After The Eruption Jason Armstrong/Civil Beat

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.

Kailua Crash Puts Hawaii’s Copter Tours Under A Microscope 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.

Vacation Rentals On Oahu May Face Tough Enforcement And New Limits Screenshot

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.

Addicted To Airbnb: Hawaii’s Tourism Economy Depends On Illegal Vacation Rentals Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Addicted To Airbnb: Hawaii’s Tourism Economy Depends On Illegal Vacation Rentals

While calls for a crackdown on short-term rentals聽grow louder, their rapid expansion accounts for a big chunk of the recent growth in the state’s largest industry.

Selling An ‘Unreal’ Hawaii Cory Lum/Civil Beat

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.