by Keli'i Akina, Ph.D. | May 3, 2019 | President's Corner, Tourism
Hawaii’s contradictory approach to short-term vacation rentals hasn’t been doing much to make anybody happy, and could, in fact, just be making things worse. For years, we’ve struggled with the question of how to handle the evolution of tourism. Short-term rentals...
by Keli'i Akina, Ph.D. | May 3, 2019 | Op-Eds, Regulation
One year ago today, on May 3, 2018, Kilauea volcano on Hawaii Island began spewing lava that destroyed hundreds of homes and disrupted thousands of lives in areas that had been designated high-risk lava zones. On May 20, 2018, Grassroot Institute of Hawaii...