tourism trade-offs and prioritiesThe purpose of this study is to determine resident attitudes to the economic, sociocultural, and ecological impacts of tourism development in Hawaii. In Fall 1982, 636 questionnaires were obtained by a random sample of residents of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai....
With tourism being the largest industry in Hawaii, many are concerned about its environmental impacts. Sustainability in tourism is becoming an increasingly important asset for hotels to stay competitive, especially with the rise of green consumerism. According to the United Nations, sustainable tourism...
The distribution of potentially harmful impacts, however, is related to important human activities that yield both social and economic benefits (for example, tourism and fishing) that cannot be simply halted to prevent ecosystem disturbance. Thus, cumulative impacts to marine predators have the ...
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cproportion of responses globally and within each ecoregion that are mild (<10 % of population impacted), moderate (10 – 50% impacted), and severe (≥ 50% impacted). A number of data points identified in each ecoregion are listed on the right. 1 = Hawaii, 2 = Fiji Islands, 3 = ...
The theory about the impacts of natural disasters on firms is ambiguous and the empirical evidence on this topic is scarce, which hampers the design of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation policies. In this paper we identify the short-run impacts of storms and floods on firm gr...
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the tourism and hospitality sector, with public policies such as travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders affecting tourist activities and business operations. To address this, we developed DemandNet, a novel deep learning framework for predicting tim...
Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are becoming more prominent in the tourism industry. Nowadays, consumers are faced with multiple options involving both human and robot interactions. A series of experimental studies were implemented. Four experiments demonstrated that consumers had a mo...
According to a survey conducted by Levine in Hawaii (Levine 2020), a vast majority of people are willing to purchase sunscreens labeled to be harmless for coral reef environments. There is a tendency towards the use of inorganic UV filters in so-called ‘reef safe’ sunscreens. There is a ...
(4) eastern North Pacific, including Mexico and Hawaii; (5) southeast Indian Ocean and southwest Pacific Ocean, including Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania; and (6) southwest Indian Ocean. Table2provides a list of these regions as well as the major countries included in this paper, while ...