Seas the Day: Hawaii’s Hotel Sector Remains Buoyant Despite Slower Return to Normal
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As the domestic travel restrictions begin to relax, vaccines become accessible, and summer approaches, we expect a resurgence of leisure travel. While pent-up demand and swollen savings accounts from the past year’s quarantine point to a likely surge in luxury vacations, a return to prepandemic tourism in Hawaii faces challenges, including confusing and inconsistent testing and quarantine protocols, dependence on air travel, and some countries still closed to Hawaii.