TY - CHAP
T1 - Shades of Green in the Tourism Sector
AU - Cox, Linda
AU - Cusick, John
N1 - This chapter discusses the sustainability efforts within Hawaiʻi's tourism sector. Hotel management and staff developed internal programs to sustain program objectives. These sectors realized cost savings by reducing their resource use and benefited from the positive publicity that is thought to be associated with such efforts.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The prevailing mass tourism business model is contributing to the bimodal distribution of wealth that is creating an ever-widening gap between the rich and poor. Despite the wealth generated from the integration and use of Maoli culture in the promotion and marketing of the islands as a premier destination, very little of that wealth directly reaches host communities or their cultural practitioners. In short, the mass tourism approach is responsible in part for creating a “disconnect” between the host and the visitor, and for experiences that are artificial, contrived, and inauthentic, which benefit neither host nor guest.
AB - The prevailing mass tourism business model is contributing to the bimodal distribution of wealth that is creating an ever-widening gap between the rich and poor. Despite the wealth generated from the integration and use of Maoli culture in the promotion and marketing of the islands as a premier destination, very little of that wealth directly reaches host communities or their cultural practitioners. In short, the mass tourism approach is responsible in part for creating a “disconnect” between the host and the visitor, and for experiences that are artificial, contrived, and inauthentic, which benefit neither host nor guest.
UR - https://hawaii.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.21313/hawaii/9780824847616.001.0001/upso-9780824847616-chapter-010
U2 - 10.21313/HAWAII/9780824847616.003.0010
DO - 10.21313/HAWAII/9780824847616.003.0010
M3 - Chapter
BT - Thinking Like an Island: Navigating a Sustainable Future in Hawaii
ER -