KAHULUI, Hawaii (AP) Richie Olsten has been in Maui s helicopter tour business for a half century, so long he s developed a barometer for the tourism-dependent economy: rental cars parked at the island s airport.
Businesses in Maui are asking tourists to return to help bolster the economy in the wake of last month’s wildfires that devastated the town of Lahaina. Nearly 8,000 people filed for unemployment in the last three weeks of August.
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