{"id":169191,"date":"2022-11-16T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=169191"},"modified":"2022-11-16T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T02:00:15","slug":"regenerative-tourism-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/16\/regenerative-tourism-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Charging only visitors to support natural resources? 东精影业ERO<\/abbr> experts argue against it"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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Hawaiʻi<\/span> Tourism Authority\u2019s Oʻahu<\/span> Destination Management Action Plan (PDF<\/abbr><\/small>)<\/a> proposes to “establish a ‘Regenerative Tourism Fee’ that directly supports programs to regenerate Hawaiʻi<\/span>\u2019s resources, protect natural resources and address unfunded conservation liabilities.” None of the other islands\u2019 action plans have proposed such a fee, so the fee would only apply to visitors to Oʻahu<\/span>. While the proposed fee would be imposed on tourists and not on local residents, a new University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> Economic Research Organization<\/a> (东精影业ERO<\/abbr>) blog suggests possible alternate fees and ways to collect them.<\/p>\n

James Mak<\/strong> (东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa emeritus professor of economics<\/a> and 东精影业ERO<\/abbr> research fellow) and Robert D. Ebel<\/strong> (former member of 东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Department of Economics and lead economist for the World Bank Institute Program on Intergovernmental Relations and Local Public Financial Management) advise against a fee that targets only tourists. They wrote, “Protecting Oʻahu<\/span>\u2019s (and the state\u2019s) natural resources benefits both residents and tourists, so both should pay. A visitors-only fee may also be illegal.”<\/p>\n

Suggested possible fee(s):<\/p>\n