A stream of middling-to-bad news has emitted from Hawaii’s tourism reports, post-COVID, with a sustained reduction in Japanese tourism and flat or somewhat lower numbers of North American and European visitors. The pandemic, inflation, war in Ukraine and a catastrophic Maui fire that destroyed Lahaina are factors, lest we forget; nonetheless, the state-funded Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) stands directly in the channel between Hawaii and its tourists, and it’s expected to dissolve or work... Read this story
