Reading time: 3minutes Bond-Smith has provided a short list of industries with potential to “make use of uniquely Hawaiʻi capabilities and are appropriate for our small scale.”
Reading time: 3minutes Of the state’s 565,000 total housing units, 30,000 are listed as STRs, meaning roughly 5% of local housing units operate as tourist accommodations.
Reading time: 3minutes The authors said that the state’s natural resources benefit both residents and tourists, so both should pay, and that a visitors-only fee may be illegal.