- Short-term rentals are decreasing in Hawaii as pandemic drags on
- Southwest to suspend Bay Area flights to Kauai
- Hawaii influencer outcry spotlights problematic Instagram tourism
- Experts estimate it will take years for Hawaii tourism to rebound
- Routes: Oakland adds nation's first COVID test vending machine
- United program to let Hawaii visitors skip COVID-19 screenings
Latest News
- “We have to care for ourselves first before we can take care of others.” By Michele Bigley
- The thread, posted on Saturday and deleted the next morning, attempted to paint the baseless conspiracy theory as well-intentioned and blamed the media for "hyperbolic" coverage of a group the FBI has identified as a potential domestic terror... By Katie Dowd
- DeTours highlights the ways that Hawaii is dominated by the military and the tourist industry by taking visitors places where they can be exposed to a different part of Hawaii’s history. By Zeb Larson
- In air travel news this week, a government report finds domestic air fares are at their lowest levels since 1995, and Southwest rolls out a 50th anniversary sale and plans a new intrastate route out of Oakland. By Jim Glab
- Some Hawaii residents were upset to learn this week that visitors to the islands can — and did — get vaccinated while in Hawaii. By Katie Dowd
- The Department of Land and Natural Resources said it believed that a participant in the Sunday parties was responsible for spreading the virus to others earlier in the pandemic. By Fernando Martinez
- Once almost destroyed for cattle ranching, Mokio Preserve on Molokai Island is making a comeback, thanks to a small team and their mighty volunteers. By Amanda Ogle
- The hiker wants to press charges against the couple with the hunting dogs. By Fernando Martinez
- In route news this week, the U.S. might soon require all arriving travelers to get a negative COVID test result. By Jim Glab
- This will be the last issue of this newsletter with me at the helm. I've truly enjoyed and long and colorful career cranking out the content and advice for you all, and seeing the big beautiful world in the process. By Chris McGinnis
- Like many of my trips, my path to becoming a travel writer took a circuitous route; the road I took was "the one less traveled by," to quote Robert Frost's famous poem. By Chris McGinnis
- There's hope that 2021 will bring back some sense of normalcy to our lives, and for many of us that means getting back on planes. By Chris McGinnis
- Reasons include the pandemic, high cost of living and the lack of job opportunities. By Fiona Lee
- In route news, BA still flies to London, UA suspends; dozens of nations shut down air routes from the U.K.; Singapore Airlines adds SFO flights; Japan Airlines will resume SFO-Haneda while ANA eyes a return to San Jose. By Chris McGinnis
- Ellison’s Four Seasons hotels on Lanai use Model X vehicles. By Tessa McLean
- It did not end up as long as it could have been. By Ellie Bozmarova