The award-winning Mauna Kea Beach Hotel has been operating since 1965 and quickly became a household favorite as it was the largest, most expensive, and most luxurious hotel built at the time. In October of 2006, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake devastated the Hawaiian islands causing damage to homes, buildings, and…
While tourism has fully opened for the most part, COVID19 is still having an effect on travel not just in Hawaii, but in the entire United States. As the graph shows there has been a significant increase in cases in the last month. The graph is a bit deceiving as…
As governments worldwide begin to loosen COVID-19 restrictions, summer travel is expected to boom this year. The World Travel & Tourism Council foresees travel and tourism in the United States to achieve pre-pandemic levels this year, contributing roughly $2 trillion to the United States economy. From the Allianz Summer Destination…
4000 American travelers were polled on the current conditions of travel and the answers were just as puzzling as everything is these days. What the results show is that people feel that the current negative conditions of the economy do have an impact on travel, but at the same time…
Tourism in Hawaii saw a very good month in February 2022 as compared to February 2019. COVID19 started in February of 2020 and tourism was minimal in 2021 so 2019 offers the best comparison for the month of February. While we saw overall tourism not doing as well in January…
With the Hawaii Safe Travel program coming to an end in a few weeks, many say tourism in Hawaii is returning to how it was in 2019 prior to COVID19. While only the statistics for January of 2022 have been released they offer some really insightful details and may have…
While 2020 was a difficult year on Hawaii vacation homeowners, 2021 has been a pleasant surprise for those that made it through 2020. Tourism as a Whole In the first two months of 2021 tourism was significantly down from the record setting numbers we saw in 2020. March-May saw a…
Kolea 7C is one of the few “front row” penthouses for rent at Kolea. This 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath bath Kolea vacation rental offers an amazing ocean view with easy access to the Kolea Beach Club. A majority of the furnishings were updated in 2018 to give it a newer,…
Waikoloa Vacation Rentals just recently added a newly renovated and upgraded three bedroom Mauna Lani Terrace vacation rental to the vacation rental program. This three bedroom condo has been very elegantly done and includes state of the art appliances as well contemporary furnishings. This villa offers a tranquil ground setting…
Every year I enjoy looking at the trends for the Hawaii tourism industry as there always seems to be some interesting and useful information. This year has definitely been a slightly different year than previous years in some positive and negative ways. While the Hawaii Tourism Authority only provides general…
