..... he got his roundtrip ticket from SD to HNL for $179. That's the visitors we're getting.
^^^ that's a HUGE problem right there. 'bottom of the barrel".
out here, we had to sit by and "applaud" when the island president (we have one, then three islands have another, then there's the one for all the archipelago, who is under the one from Madrid, who responds to the one from The Hague) stood there at a press conference about tourism and inform us that in order to bring "quality" tourism from the U.K. we'd have to subsidize part of their plane fares!!??!!??
Yeah, cause those are the ones that leave money behind, the ones who cannot afford the plane fare to get here....
as far as Aloha, and the practice of spreading it by example, that's karma, or the dao.
I wish Hawaii well with that. The Canaries have been repeatedly raped, plunded and pillaged thanks to their "everyone welcome here".
I practice the same form of life, but harvest no illusions of the knuckle dragging cadre becoming enlightened within my lifetime, irregardless of how much the see it, are presented with it and on ocasion even have it "spread upon them".
Mostly, my experience? The "best of the bunch" offer you their credit card... no lie, cross my heart and hope to die if untrue, I have had it happen to me.
Saved a dude's wife from drowning, drove them to the hospital 2 hours away back then in the south of the island (oniy one with hyperbaric chamber, which luckily wasn't needed)... When I told the guy "pay it forward" (even explaining what I meant, no pay me now, just be kind to someone down the road and that's payment enough for me) guy deer in the headlights pulls out his wallet, offers me his M/C. What can you do? I know you're gonna find it hard to believe, given my "track record" with cc's... I just shrugged, gave up, turned and went home.
Sometimes, they just do not get "IT".
Aloha!