Developing a Dream Destination: Tourism and Tourism Policy Planning in Hawai'i - Softcover

Mak, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824832434 ISBN 13: 9780824832438

Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008

Synopsis

Developing a Dream Destination is an interpretive history of tourism and tourism policy development in Hawai'i from the 1960s to the twenty-first century. Part 1 looks at the many changes in tourism since statehood (1959) and tourism's imprint on Hawai'i. Part 2 reviews the development of public policy toward tourism, beginning with a story of the planning process that started around 1970 - a full decade before the first comprehensive State Tourism Plan was crafted and implemented. It also examines state government policies and actions taken relative to the taxation of tourism, tourism promotion, convention center development and financing, the environment, Honolulu County's efforts to improve Waikiki, and how the Neighbor Islands have coped with explosive tourism growth.

About this title

About the Author

James Mak is professor of economics at the University of Hawai'i.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824832434
• ISBN 13: 9780824832438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272