As Mainland visitors keep Hawai’i’s No. 1 industry on track to surpass last year’s high mark of 7.46 million arrivals, Japanese tourists are avoiding the Islands in growing numbers.
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Hawaii gas eases; crude corrects
Crude oil prices eased Monday in Singapore after briefly touching $78 a barrel in New York last week. Hawaii gas prices also eased slightly. Honolulu gas prices were down three cents a gallon from a…
Need an operation? Here’syour air ticket to … India
Don’t look now, but that operation you’ve been putting off may be outsourced – to India.
Reno’s Wallace carries on family tradition
Before the biggest baseball game of his life, Oregon State freshman and Reno native John Wallace sat in the dugout and sent his mom a text message on her cell phone.
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
WAIKAPU Three candidates for office will speak to the Maui Democratic Century Club meeting at noon today at the Maui Tropical Plantation.
ITC, Starwood to strengthen alliance
For 25 years, the ITC-Sheraton partnership has welcomed thousands of up market travelers to some of India’s finest hotels. But now, it seems that ITC has outgrown Sheraton and wants to move one rung higher. See More…
Malmaison owner Richard Balfour-Lynn last week emerged triumphant from a 10-day ding-dong battle to clinch De Vere, the operator of 18 luxury hotels including Cameron House at Loch Lomond, seeing off a private equity rival and upping his offer twice in the process. See More…
Tall, skinny … stable Using novel technology, SF tower should …
San Francisco Chronicle, USA – Jul 1, 2006… The outrigger design is "tried and true,'' said Raymond Lui, a structural engineer with the San Francisco Building Inspection Department. … Continue…
DAN HOTELS SCORES HIGHEST: Best Hotel Chain in Israel
TravelVideo.tv (press release) – 13 hours ago… Dan Hotels Israel received first place on customer satisfaction in a random sample of Israeli and foreign tourists—well above the hotel industry average that …
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Simulated nuclear explosion planned
Honolulu Advertiser, HI – 22 hours agoThe state plans to hold an exercise in mid-August simulating the explosion of a half-kiloton nuclear device at the entrance of Honolulu Harbor, a mock blast …
Hawaiian music giants coming to San Francisco
Perhaps the biggest name in Hawaiian music — and one shared by two brothers — is coming to town this month. The Brothers Cazimero play the Palace of Fine Arts on July 23 in a fundraiser for San Francisco’s Nihonmachi Street Fair. In their decades of… More…
Brian OLeary loves to compete, especially with himself. He also loves to train in order to keep himself in excellent physical condition. Those are the reasons he is a triathlete. More…