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Contractors worry a rise in costs could make it harder for people to afford rebuilding burned homes.

Hawaiʻi Attorney General Anne Lopez is sending letters to more than 800 Hawaiʻi tobacco retailers and distributors about the distribution and sale of illegal tobacco products. Most of the products originate in China and include electronic smoking devices known as vapes or e-cigarettes and oral tobacco pouch products.

Most visitors see Hawai‘i as a safe and secure destination, according to the latest Visitor Satisfaction and Activity Survey released by the Hawai‘i Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. The survey complied answers to questions of visitors from the United States, Canada, Japan, Oceania, Korea and China who visited Hawai‘i in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Hawaiian Airlines suspends its thrice-weekly nonstop service this week between Honolulu’s Daniel K Inouye International Airport and Beijing Capital International Airport.

Buying missions and showrooms are among the new targeted activities that the state is going to use to promote and develop small business exporters in Hawaii, especially to China.

In November, a select group of Hawaii retailers will have an opportunity to sell local products to a delegation of thirteen Chinese buyers who will visit Hawaii as guests of Lt. Governor Brian Schatz.

The Hawai’i Tourism Authority (HTA) welcomed the first regularly-scheduled direct flight from Shanghai, China to Hawai’i at 9:50 a.m. this morning in Honolulu.

In its commitment to growing the Chinese visitor market, the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) and China Television (CHTV) have teamed up and developed a Chinese language welcome video that started showing on the new CHTV Hotel Channel July 1.

The Hawai’i Tourism Authority (HTA), the state’s tourism agency, announced that it will be issuing a request for proposals (RFP) for external tourism marketing management services on April 5, 2011.

The private-sector Hawaii Tourism Association (HiTA) is working with a Shanghai-based investment company and a new Chinese airline carrier to bring three scheduled weekly nonstop flights direct from Shanghai to Honolulu.

In a sea of red, Maui County celebrated the Chinese New Year celebration yesterday as hundreds of people came out to find good luck at the Maui Mall.

Governor Lingle will announce today a list of bills she is considering for veto.  Today is the deadline to notify the legislature of potential vetoes, but the cut off date to take action is July 6th. Earlier this month, the Governor said she would likely take the full time allowed to consider the future of […]

Tourism in Hawaii is stabilizing according to Tourism Liaison Marsha Wienert who responded to statistics released for March 2010.  The monthly statistics Wienert said represented the largest increase in visitor spending in four years, benefiting nearly every sector of the economy. “March, boosted by spring break, brought increased visitor arrivals and slightly higher per person […]