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In Hawaiian culture, a lei is never expected. “It’s always a gift, and it’s an adornment,” said Lahela Spencer, Hawaiian culture specialist at Hilton Waikoloa Village, the host resort of our Meetings Today LIVE! Hawai'i event April 19-22. “It’s not there to match your clothes. It’s not an accessory. It should never be, ‘I’m going to Hawai'i, where’s my lei?’ But because it’s been a part of the industry for so long, it’s become an expectation.”

"I would like our top priority in diversification to be improving support for local, small-scale, sustainable agriculture."

Tracey Niimi and Lito Arkangel brought home a silver award for a public awareness video on tourism safety.

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OPINION: Although Hawaii reopened to tourists in October, it took a combination of spring break and pent-up travel fever before the airports felt close to normal again. By mid-March, the number of arriving domestic passengers exceeded 2020's anaemic levels by 400 per cent. A surge in visitors is undoubtedly good for the state's hard-hit tourism economy. But is it good for Hawaiians? A year after the state's borders were first shut due to Covid, many locals have embraced a new normal: uncrowded beaches, free-moving traffic, and cleaner air and water. In one recent poll, nearly half of Hawaiia...