Hawaii Tourism Study

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 quantity [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]