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America’s Coolest Beach Homes
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The Parrish Collection Banks On Poipu Resorts
I’ve been to Poipu, Kauai and it’s an amazing Hawaii vacation destination. So I can see why The Parrish Collection (TPC) is banking on the several Poipu resorts in the area. TPC manages vacation homes and condos in popular locations like Poipu Kai and Nihi Kai Villas. From what I know about the business, property [...]
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Safari Helicopters Takes Hawaii Helicopter Tours to New Heights
I’ve been wanting to do an evaluation of a Hawaii activity company for a while now, and I’ve finaly got my chance. Safari Helicopters has been taking people on Hawaii helicopter tours to “inaccessible wonders” in the islands for 22 years. Reading through the elaborate company section, you learn that this is a family run [...]
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Uptake Tackles The Hawaii Vacation Market
Uptake is one of my favorite types of websites, a data aggregator (a site that compiles information from multiple sources into one place). If you take a look at their Hawaii activities section, for instance, you’ll see data pulled from Travelocity, Yahoo!, Trip Advisor, Yelp, Epinions and CitySearch as well as other information directly from [...]
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Hawaii Destinations Makes a Good Start
I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Ted at Hawaii Destinations - a Hawaii travel and tourism site which is a guide for independent travelers visiting the islands. The goal of this website, as stated on their about page, is, “to become a respected destination and vacation guide, providing a quality and [...]
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Hawaiian Beach Rentals Has It Going On
Hawaiian Beach Rentals is the largest Hawaii vacation rental company in the state with more than 4,000 accommodations for you to choose from. They use the following business model:
Sells Services - The company is paid a commission by property owners for providing a booking service for their rentals.
There are two things that really set Hawaiian [...]
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Hawaii.com Overcharging Clients for Clicks
Hawaii.com is an advertising based Hawaii travel site owned by the Gannett Company whose flagship publication is USA Today. They use 2 Internet business models:
Affiliate program - Hawaii.com receives a percentage of the sale whenever they send a user to another website and that user buys something.
Cost Per Click (CPC) - advertising where vendors pay [...]
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Socio-Cultural & Public Input Component
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The overall purpose of this component is to assure public awareness of, and input to, the overall project … to consider the social and cultural effects of Hawai`i tourism (past, present, and especially future) … and to see if the ideas generated during the project are supported by the overall public in [...]
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Infrastructure & Environmental Overview
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The purpose of the Overview study was to compile an inventory of selected public and private infrastructure, as well as environmental features, in order to establish baseline data for 2000. This component was intended to identify infrastructure/environmental capacity, usage, problems and future plans, compare visitor and resident impacts and define major assumptions [...]
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