Summit Pacific Inc. appears to have its roots in the Kauai vacation rentals market. They seem to be expanding into other islands, but their main play in on Kauai with such resorts as Puu Poa, Hanalei Bay Resort and Waipouli Beach Resort. This is an interesting Hawaii travel site to study because the company employs [...]
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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
General Description of Work:
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
General Description of Work:
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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Project Objectives and Geographical Coverage
Objectives
The project has seven main objectives:
1. Examine sustainable tourism development in Hawai`i based on various scenarios that consider the quality of life of residents and the quality of the visitor experience.
2. Effectively include input from residents through a public involvement and peer-review study component.
3. Define requirements, responses, and limiting factors for key natural resources and [...]
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The Sustainable Tourism Concept
The Sustainable Tourism Project is representative of an emerging approach in economic development to reconcile the need for economic growth with the quality of life and the protection of natural resources. The World Tourism Organization (WTO) identifies “sustainable tourism” as visitor industry development that has:
Ecological sustainability; ensuring that development is compatible with the maintenance of [...]
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Project Reports
To find out all the latest information on current project you can visit the Hawaii Tourism site. They have many down-loadable reports that provide detailed studies and statistics.
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Project Overview
Tourism is currently the industry most responsible for Hawai`i’s economic growth and standard of living. Although many emerging industries – such as technology, film, health & wellness, professional services, specialty products and others – show great promise for the future, our economic growth will probably still depend largely on tourism for many years to come. [...]
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Economic and Environmental Modeling Study
General Description of Work
The Economic and Environmental Modeling Study will apply state-of-the-art economic modeling and other techniques to simulate conditions of tourism development and population growth through time, and identify the impact of this growth on key environmental and quality of life measures for various economic and geographical sectors.
The goal of the process is to [...]
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