{"id":3073,"date":"2024-04-11T21:58:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T04:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:45:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T01:45:54","slug":"hawaii-set-to-ban-airbnb-vrbo-short-term-rentals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/04\/11\/hawaii-set-to-ban-airbnb-vrbo-short-term-rentals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii set to ban AirBnb, VRBO short term rentals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Only licensed hotels would be permitted: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/hawaii\/article\/hawaii-short-term-rental-vacation-bill-19382321.php\">Hawaii could ban short-term vacation rentals for good (sfgate.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hawaii does not have much seasonality in tourism, consequently, everything is expensive all year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some in Hawaii, in the recent past, have said they would prefer to have fewer tourists who are rich, and spend more money &#8211; similar to New Zealand and other destinations, Hawaii wants to restructure tourism to focus on the wealthy elite travelers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/02\/18\/hawaii-proposes-climate-fee-tax-on-tourists\/\">Hawaii proposes \u201cclimate fee\u201d tax on tourists \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/04\/05\/hawaii-proposes-tourism-fee-climate-fees-for-tourists\/\">Hawaii proposes \u201ctourism fee\u201d, \u201cclimate fees\u201d for tourists \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/01\/23\/hawaii-proposing-to-charge-each-visitor-50-tourist-tax\/\">Hawaii proposing to charge each visitor $50 tourist tax \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a> (for a family for four, that would be a $200 tax to enter the state &#8211; after which how many other U.S. states would start to charge entry fees?)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/03\/17\/by-design-hawaii-has-become-unaffordable-for-most-travelers\/\">By design, Hawaii has become unaffordable for most travelers \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I have never been to Hawaii but had planned to go in 2020, which of course did not happen. At the time, I had done a full travel plan and priced out everything &#8211; today, it seems much more expensive. I am no longer sure it has the right value proposition and we might never visit Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state may start banning short term rentals due to the high costs of housing, and shortage on Maui due to the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accommodations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","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=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}