04-27-2016, 10:05 AM
You want kama'aina rates for police traffic tickets?? Big ticket item on your household budget?
This is exactly why so many places chase the tourist dollar, its a goldmine. The amount of tax they pay for hotels and vacation rentals is astonishing. Where do you get this idea that vacation rentals are illegal?
8 to 1? Yes, there were 8 million visitors last year in Hawaii but they didn't all come at the same time!
If you figure 1 week per tourist then that's 150,000 at any one time, which is about 10% of the population.
So actually locals outnumber tourists 10 to 1 (here probably 100 to 1), and I bet the tourists pay way more
than their fair share of tax. We should thank them personally.
This is exactly why so many places chase the tourist dollar, its a goldmine. The amount of tax they pay for hotels and vacation rentals is astonishing. Where do you get this idea that vacation rentals are illegal?
8 to 1? Yes, there were 8 million visitors last year in Hawaii but they didn't all come at the same time!
If you figure 1 week per tourist then that's 150,000 at any one time, which is about 10% of the population.
So actually locals outnumber tourists 10 to 1 (here probably 100 to 1), and I bet the tourists pay way more
than their fair share of tax. We should thank them personally.