Above, the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Despite the scare tactics His Fraudulency's administration and their media lapdogs have been saying, the coronavirus "Delta variant" has had little effect on Hawaii tourism
According to the Hawaii Tribune-Herald:
Despite the recent spike in Delta variant COVID-19 cases, Hawaii’s popularity as a travel destination continues to grow.
At a Monday meeting of the House Committee on COVID-19 Economic and Financial Preparedness, state officials and visitor industry representatives discussed the effects — or lack thereof — the current outbreak in the state has had on the recovery of the visitor industry.
Carl Bonham, executive director of the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, said during the meeting that the increase in visitor arrivals to Hawaii — which in July totaled nearly 90% of those in July 2019 — have exceeded UHERO’s most optimistic predictions from earlier this year.
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