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Re: Sea of rental cars grows at Kahului's airport as visitors stay away and businesses struggle
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> Typical Democrat run operation. All fucked up and nobody knows what
> the hell is going on.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Following mixed messages about tourism to
Maui, the local economy is foundering — with layoffs mounting and
businesses struggling to stay open.
Proof of just how bad things are is visible as soon before you even land
at Kahului Airport: A sea of rental cars is visible from the air in a
grassy field on airport property.
That field, officials say, is usually empty.
Special Section: Maui Wildfires
Maui wedding photographer Tara Lee Murphy was in Lahaina on Aug. 8, and
snapped photos of a happy couple on Front Street just hours before
flames tore through the town.
“It wasn’t until I got home and then I started seeing everything
unfolding and then it’s just been unfolding ever since,” she said.
Murphy, like so many other small businesses owners, are now struggling
to remain afloat with few visitors coming to Maui — and the short- and
mid-term forecast bleak.
Shortly after the wildfire, “Maui is closed” messages spread on social
media and a flurry of cancellations came in. That’s even though tourism
officials said all but West Maui was open.
Jonathan Silva is the school counselor at King Kamehameha III
Elementary, which burned down. He also works at three hotels to make
ends meet, but he isn’t working at all right now.
After confusion with tourism message in wake of wildfires, Maui
struggles to woo visitors back “Who going help me? Who going help the
people in my canoe, yeah? I don’t want to say to the people that we’re
all in the same boat. No way. The people in Lahaina, they’re in a
completely different boat. Their boat burnt down. They don’t have a
boat,” he said.
“There’s another group of us who are in a different boat and we are
sinking.”
According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, there were just under 3,500
visitors a day to the Valley Isle this month. That’s half the number
seen in August of last year.
“We have a crisis on top of a crisis now because not only is Lahaina
economically hit, but the rest of the island is economically hit,” said
business owner Maureen Bacon.
Business owners like Bacon want the world to know that while West Maui
is closed, the rest of the island is still open — and needs help more
than ever before.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/09/01/crisis-top-crisis-maui-residents
-struggle-stay-afloat-tourism-flouders/
news:u5ocl5$s7n5$1...@dont-email.me:
> Typical Democrat run operation. All fucked up and nobody knows what
> the hell is going on.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Following mixed messages about tourism to
Maui, the local economy is foundering — with layoffs mounting and
businesses struggling to stay open.
Proof of just how bad things are is visible as soon before you even land
at Kahului Airport: A sea of rental cars is visible from the air in a
grassy field on airport property.
That field, officials say, is usually empty.
Special Section: Maui Wildfires
Maui wedding photographer Tara Lee Murphy was in Lahaina on Aug. 8, and
snapped photos of a happy couple on Front Street just hours before
flames tore through the town.
“It wasn’t until I got home and then I started seeing everything
unfolding and then it’s just been unfolding ever since,” she said.
Murphy, like so many other small businesses owners, are now struggling
to remain afloat with few visitors coming to Maui — and the short- and
mid-term forecast bleak.
Shortly after the wildfire, “Maui is closed” messages spread on social
media and a flurry of cancellations came in. That’s even though tourism
officials said all but West Maui was open.
Jonathan Silva is the school counselor at King Kamehameha III
Elementary, which burned down. He also works at three hotels to make
ends meet, but he isn’t working at all right now.
After confusion with tourism message in wake of wildfires, Maui
struggles to woo visitors back “Who going help me? Who going help the
people in my canoe, yeah? I don’t want to say to the people that we’re
all in the same boat. No way. The people in Lahaina, they’re in a
completely different boat. Their boat burnt down. They don’t have a
boat,” he said.
“There’s another group of us who are in a different boat and we are
sinking.”
According to the Hawaii Tourism Authority, there were just under 3,500
visitors a day to the Valley Isle this month. That’s half the number
seen in August of last year.
“We have a crisis on top of a crisis now because not only is Lahaina
economically hit, but the rest of the island is economically hit,” said
business owner Maureen Bacon.
Business owners like Bacon want the world to know that while West Maui
is closed, the rest of the island is still open — and needs help more
than ever before.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2023/09/01/crisis-top-crisis-maui-residents
-struggle-stay-afloat-tourism-flouders/
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