{"id":1239,"date":"2023-04-05T17:14:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T00:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2023-04-05T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T00:36:15","slug":"hawaii-proposes-tourism-fee-climate-fees-for-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/04\/05\/hawaii-proposes-tourism-fee-climate-fees-for-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii proposes &#8220;tourism fee&#8221;, &#8220;climate fees&#8221; for tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already one of the most expensive places to visit in the U.S., the Hawaiian Islands state wants it to cost even more, to limit visits only to the wealthiest:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The program would go into effect on July 1, 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Hawaii residents would be exempt; they must have filed or paid state income taxes for the previous year or be able to provide evidence of their address via documents such as a state driver&#8217;s license.<\/li>\n<li>The bill, if enacted, would follow similar models implemented in other popular travel destinations, including <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/veneziaautentica.com\/venice-tourist-tax\/#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%9Covernight%20tax%E2%80%9D%2C%20introduced,from%20the%206th%20day%20onwards.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"Venice, Italy\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/veneziaautentica.com\/venice-tourist-tax\/#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%9Covernight%20tax%E2%80%9D%2C%20introduced,from%20the%206th%20day%20onwards.\" data-vars-content-id=\"73080607-363c-48d6-8632-bfc7598e6efe\" data-vars-headline=\"Hawaii weighs tourism fee amid worsening environmental damage\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">Venice, Italy<\/a>, <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.immigration.govt.nz\/new-zealand-visas\/preparing-a-visa-application\/your-journey-to-new-zealand\/before-you-travel-to-new-zealand\/paying-ivl#:~:text=Many%20tourists%2C%20people%20on%20working,(IVL)%20of%20NZD%20%2435.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"New Zealand\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.immigration.govt.nz\/new-zealand-visas\/preparing-a-visa-application\/your-journey-to-new-zealand\/before-you-travel-to-new-zealand\/paying-ivl#:~:text=Many%20tourists%2C%20people%20on%20working,(IVL)%20of%20NZD%20%2435.\" data-vars-content-id=\"73080607-363c-48d6-8632-bfc7598e6efe\" data-vars-headline=\"Hawaii weighs tourism fee amid worsening environmental damage\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">New Zealand<\/a> and <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gobiernogalapagos.gob.ec\/preguntas-y-respuestas-frecuentes-control-migratorio-tct\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"Ecuador's Galapagos Islands\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.gobiernogalapagos.gob.ec\/preguntas-y-respuestas-frecuentes-control-migratorio-tct\/\" data-vars-content-id=\"73080607-363c-48d6-8632-bfc7598e6efe\" data-vars-headline=\"Hawaii weighs tourism fee amid worsening environmental damage\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">Ecuador&#8217;s Galapagos Islands<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/04\/05\/hawaii-tourism-fee-environmental-damage\">Hawaii weighs tourism fee amid worsening environmental damage<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hawaii is <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/03\/17\/by-design-hawaii-has-become-unaffordable-for-most-travelers\/\">rapidly becoming unaffordable to all but the most wealthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The State also has an effective <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">18% occupancy tax<\/a> on accommodations and has increased the tax on rental cars to $8\/day. Honolulu has banned short term rentals (AirBnb). The state is planning to raise the hotel accommodation tax to 33% on all non-hotel short term rentals (but many say this is unconstitutional due to its selective application).<\/p>\n<p>Tourism accounts for 21% of the state&#8217;s economy in a state that is one of the lowest in the U.S. for personal income and other economic sector. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Hawaii-state\/Economy#:~:text=Economy%20of%20Hawaii%201%20Agriculture%2C%20forestry%2C%20and%20fishing,Services%2C%20labour%2C%20and%20taxation%20...%205%20Transportation%20\">Hawaii also has among the highest cost of living of all 50 states.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already one of the most expensive places to visit in the U.S., the Hawaiian Islands state wants it to cost even more, to limit visits only to the wealthiest: The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}