beachbunny
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 26, 2000
The Governor and Mayor of Honolulu have both declared that the stay at home order will continue until the end of May.
How this affects tourism: Right now, anyone coming into Hawaii, even inter-island travel, is being quarantined for 14 days. The means going anywhere, even to get groceries or to the pool/beach, is not allowed. A few tourists have attempted to violate the quarantine and have been sent home to their state/country - hotels are now reporting their own guests to authorities. All vacation rental homes are illegal at this time. The government has finally started cracking down on this loophole to tourism and these homeowners are being shut down and would be tourists are being sent home.
Even when Hawaii opens up, the 14 day travel quarantine will still be in effect for the foreseeable future. The government is currently looking into everything from putting all tourists into a few hotels which they'd have to pay for, to ankle bracelet monitoring. In any event, Hawaii will not be getting back to business as usual for a LONG time.
How this affects tourism: Right now, anyone coming into Hawaii, even inter-island travel, is being quarantined for 14 days. The means going anywhere, even to get groceries or to the pool/beach, is not allowed. A few tourists have attempted to violate the quarantine and have been sent home to their state/country - hotels are now reporting their own guests to authorities. All vacation rental homes are illegal at this time. The government has finally started cracking down on this loophole to tourism and these homeowners are being shut down and would be tourists are being sent home.
Even when Hawaii opens up, the 14 day travel quarantine will still be in effect for the foreseeable future. The government is currently looking into everything from putting all tourists into a few hotels which they'd have to pay for, to ankle bracelet monitoring. In any event, Hawaii will not be getting back to business as usual for a LONG time.