{"id":2633,"date":"2024-01-23T22:05:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T06:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2024-01-23T22:11:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T06:11:12","slug":"hawaii-proposing-to-charge-each-visitor-50-tourist-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/01\/23\/hawaii-proposing-to-charge-each-visitor-50-tourist-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii proposing to charge each visitor $50 tourist tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The fee is also referred to as a &#8220;climate change&#8221; fee. Promoters say it will raise money and also eliminate low end travelers. Only wealthy, elite travelers should be permitted in Hawaii.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&nbsp;Honolulu Civil Beat reported that [Governor] Green said the fee&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.civilbeat.org\/2022\/06\/top-hawaii-governor-candidates-exchange-shots-at-forum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">could generate up to $600 million a year<\/a>&nbsp;while <strong>decreasing \u201cthe number of tourists that would come in at the low end<\/strong>, so we\u2019ll have fewer tourists overall with this additional revenue.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/hawaii\/article\/tourist-fee-hawaii-sb-304-explained-18615868.php\">As Hawaii tourism rebounds, a new fee may soon hit visitors (sfgate.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fee would be in addition to fees for accessing parks, beaches, parking fees, and other fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some say the fee is unconstitutional: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepointsguy.com\/news\/hawaii-new-tourist-tax\/\">Hawaii advances new $50 visitor &#8216;green&#8217; fee &#8211; The Points Guy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ostensibly for improvements, or climate change or, as the Governor said, to decrease &#8220;the number of tourists that would come in at the low end&#8221;. They only want wealthy elite travelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","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=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}