Hawaii Dept of Tourism

Tourist Program

Enhancement programs: Reinforcing Hawaii' culture and conserving natural resources will remain a key focus for the visitor industry and this agency. Music from Hawaii is offered at the airports on different dates and at different hours and in the port to welcome cruisers. The financing of the port is done by an arrangement of the Hawaii Tourism Authority.

The County Product Enrichment Program (CPEP) is administered annually (if available).

Hawaiian tourist crime victim

Previous studies have found a statistically correlation between an increase in the rate of criminality and tourism in holiday areas. To deduce autonomous criminality levels for tourism and local subpopulations, this report uses information from two Hawaiian states. Surveys show that the theft, plunder and violence rate was higher for visitors than for the population.

Honolulu's tourism also had a higher break-in incidence. This evidence suggests that previous knowledge of a link between tourism and criminality is at least partly due to the fact that tourism is a disproportionate victim of criminality. There are a number of issues under discussion, among them certain characteristics of the tourism sector itself and certain issues of the tourism sector, to clarify these results.

Visitors as victims: felonies against tourists in Hawaii. Previous studies have found a statistical correlation between rising criminality rates and tourism in holiday resorts. This study uses data from two Hawaiian counties to find separate criminality rates for sub-populations of tourists and residents.

The analysis shows that tourists in both counties experienced a higher rate of basic robbery, armed robbery and rape than residents. In Honolulu, tourists also experienced a higher rate of burglary. These data suggest that the earlier results of a relationship between tourism and criminality can be explained at least in part by the disproportionate incidence of tourists becoming victims of them.

To explain these findings, several factors are discussed, including some attributes of the tourists themselves and some aspect of the tourism industry.