Tourists Are Returning To Hawaii, So Why Aren t Tourism Jobs? - Honolulu Civil Beat
Tourists Are Returning To Hawaii, So Why Aren’t Tourism Jobs?
Hawaii hosted 8% more tourists in March 2021 than in March 2020 but 35% fewer hotel and restaurant jobs. Reading time: 7 minutes.
Signs that tourists are returning to Hawaii are hard to miss: crowded beaches, lines outside tourist take-out spots, increasing foot traffic along Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki.
The return is hardly an illusion: data shows there were substantially more tourists in Hawaii in March of this year than the same month in 2020, when Hawaii tourism was just starting to feel the effects of COVID-19.