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John, I find it hard to believe that every hotel in Kailua-Kona is
at 40% occupancy. There must be hotels here that are having higher occupancy rates since the the overall occupancy rate for Hawaii County
was at 55.5% for July. Care to clarify this ? Is it only the hotel
that your wife works at or all the hotels ?
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If less tourists are comming due to air fares (obviously other econimics playing a part too)it might be good if the state could work with the hotels to encourage the tourists that do come to stay longer. Possibly a tax break for hotels that offer large rate reductions for stay extensions, or something like that. The longer the tourist stays, the more taxes from other sales and services go to the state and more hours to work for the emplayees so less unemployment to pay.
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Big Islander to be.
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quote:
Originally posted by Hotzcatz
Seems like the hotels could offer the rooms to their staff to use so they wouldn't have to drive across the island every night. If folks could stay there during the week, they could probably afford to work for less. Maybe give kamaaina weekly or monthly rates or make part of the hotel rooms into condos.
The trouble with that is how those staff act at the hotel when no longer in uniform. The sweet professional that checked you in gets drunk at the Four Seasons bar then vomits on a customer. I have worked at many places where the staff need to leave once their shift is done. Young staff sticking around after their stift and being crazy youth causes MANY problems for a professional business.
Oink's idea sounds great but seems to make way to much sense to actually happen.
