Hawaii Tourism Authority Planning Ads Cuts

The Hawaii Tourism Authority will cut their ad spending budget by 5 percent from last year due to a budget cutback with a proposed $71 million budget for 2010. Of that $71 million they plan on spending 69 percent of it marketing travel to Hawaii. The reason for the budget cut is because the agency [...]

New Travel Study doesn’t show good signs for Hawaii travel

With all the bad news about less people taking Hawaiian vacations a new poll that came out in the last couple of days points to things getting worse for summer travel, which is when Hawaii tourism is at its peak. A new Marist Poll says that only 49 percent of Americans plan on taking a [...]

Less Japanese Tourist Traveling to Hawaii due to Flu Concerns

In the last couple of days Hawaii tourism officials have come out and said that the Hawaii travel numbers from Japan have dropped sharply due to Swine Flu concerns. On May 10th they began to see a decline on visitor arrivals of 22 to 37 perecent as compared to the same time last year. These [...]

Hawaii Vacation Activity

Do as the locals would do. That is the saying when most people go on vacations and is definetly what people do when they are on a Hawaiian vacation. One of the most popular activities not only for tourists but also people who live in Hawaii is the Pearl Harbor Memorial. That day in 1941 [...]

Go! Airlines post $2.1 million operating loss in 1st quarter

Hawaii interisland carrier Go! Airlines who provides Hawaii travel service between the major Hawaiian islands yesterday reported that in the first quarter they had a $2.1 million operating cost loss. There was some good news in this though with the results coming from operating revenues of $9.6 million which happened to be up from the [...]

Alaska Airlines to offer more flights to Hawaii while cutting back to Mexico

Yesterday Alaska Airlines announced that it was increasing flights from the Mainland to Hawaii while cutting flights to Mexico as well. Alaska Airlines said that they are adding four times weekly service between Oakland California and Kahului, Maui and thrice-weekly service between Oakland and Kona. They already offer flights from Seattle to Honolulu and plan [...]

More Travelers Coming to Hawaii with Problems with in Mexico

Last week I wrote a post about how more people may be thinking about traveling to Hawaii with the problem with the Swine Flu in Mexico, well it looks like it may be happening. The president of one of the biggest travel agencies that sells travel to Hawaii said that there are quite a few [...]