hawaii

Tag Archives for hawaii.

It Looks Like Hawaii Tourism Won’t Re-Start August 1 After All

by Gary Leff on July 11, 2020

Jul 11 2020

Travel doesn’t just face risk from COVID-19, but from the response to COVID-19, and more importantly from changes in that response. In other words regime uncertainty.

The Lt. Governor says the August 1 re-opening date will be pushed back, even though people have bought their tickets and made plans. Instead he says it’ll be postponed indefinitely, until a time that gets announced two weeks prior to re-opening. But it’s ultimately the governor’s decision, and he may or may not have made it yet.

Hawaii Proposes New “Isolation” In Addition To Quarantine As It Prepares To Re-Open For Tourism

by Gary Leff on June 25, 2020

Jun 25 2020

A new bill would allow the state’s Department of Health to place people arriving with COVID-19 into “isolation” not merely quarantine, separating them from their families. Critics have likened this to placing people in “camps.”

Hawaii Re-Opens August 1 – With Pre-Arrival COVID Testing (Sadly Impossible For Many)

by Gary Leff on June 25, 2020

Jun 25 2020

Hawaii has imposed a 14-day mandatory quarantine on arrival since late March. That order currently extends through July 31, but will be extended.

What’s new is that Hawaii will offer an option to avoid quarantine. Arriving passengers with a negative test for COVID-19 from the previous 72 hours, will be exempted. The state will also be implementing temperature screening at airports.

Sad: Tourist Dies In Ocean Seeking To Escape Hawaii’s Quarantine

by Gary Leff on June 22, 2020

Jun 22 2020

One man couldn’t handle Hawaii’s mandatory quarantine on arrival. Ten days in he hit the ocean, and that’s where he died. The 39 year old man, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was found by a fisherman at Diamond Head near Honolulu.

Hawaii Won’t Re-Open To Tourism Until At Least August

by Gary Leff on June 11, 2020

Jun 11 2020

Hawaii has extended its required 14 day quarantine for arriving visitors through the end of July. That means it’s effectively off-limits to tourism until at least August.

They can’t ban travelers from coming to the islands, but they can require quarantines once they land. So for Hawaii ‘re-opening’ means lifting of quarantine requirements. Here’s what the state plans to do before that happens.

Hawaii Begins To Lift Restrictions – But Only For Their Own Residents

by Gary Leff on June 2, 2020

Jun 02 2020

Hawaii is set to re-open some travel – but only for its own residents and not other U.S. citizens.

During the coronavirus crisis Hawaii has kicked people off the island who couldn’t possibly have brought the virus there and still be spreading it. They use the virus as an excuse to push out Airbnb rentals which compete with local hotel owners as well as trying to keep tourists segregated in resort areas. They’ve considered requiring anyone coming to the islands have a ticket to leave.

Hawaii Uses Coronavirus As Excuse To Attack Airbnb and Protect Hotels

by Gary Leff on June 1, 2020

Jun 01 2020

Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis Hawaii has mixed a legitimate desire to keep cases out of the islands and prevent spread with a fear and even hatred of outsiders.

Now there’s a move to keep tourists segregated in resort areas and keep them out of Hawaiian neighborhoods that want to keep those neighborhoods only for locals. This is also protectionism for hotel owners.

Hawaii Considers New, Possibly Illegal, Restrictions on Tourists

by Gary Leff on May 9, 2020

May 09 2020

Even as Hawaii prepares a marketing campaign to bring back tourism calling the state ‘the safest place in the world’ for how well it has managed to contain COVID-19, it’s also ramping up restrictions on visitors – some designed to protect the state from coronavirus, others clearly motivated by an antipathy towards outsiders coming from the mainland.

Hawaii Prepares To Welcome Visitors With New Slogan, “The Safest Place In The World”

by Gary Leff on May 3, 2020

May 03 2020

In March Hawaii started asking tourists not to visit the state. And then they got so serious about keeping outsiders away, who might bring a virus, that they started paying for plane tickets so tourists would leave.

Now the State of Hawaii – with fewer than 700 confirmed coronavirus cases and just 16 deaths – is making its success containing coronavirus part of a new tourism marketing campaign that’s in the works.

Hawaii’s Tourism Authority Will Now Pay To Get Tourists To Leave The State

by Gary Leff on April 25, 2020

Apr 25 2020

The state has had just 55 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past week. Perhaps they benefit from warm, humidity, and a tendency to spend time outdoors. Perhaps the quarantine for arriving passengers put in place April 1 has helped as well.

But what happens when visitors to the Islands violate the quarantine order?