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Hotels vs Vacation Rentals in Hawaii
Just recently the State of Hawaii began to claim that vacation rentals and bed and breakfast operations are not neccessities, but yet hotels are.  This make 0 sense to me.  All these type of operations are in the business of providing lodging to transients.  All of them, well almost all of them, pay transient taxes.  This has raised several questions for me that I think are valid and am curious if anyone has any input or if you are seeing the same in your State.
Why not shut down all transient lodging?
If the idea is to keep transient travelers away, just shut it all down.  Then no one will have a place to stay when they show up.  I am not sure about Oahu, but I am not aware of many transient travelers that are neccessities to our Island at the cost of possibly bringing the virus.
Why not shut down the places with the most space?
The logic to me would be to shut down the big hotels so there is limited space on the island and the few people that come can stay in vacation rentals.  I know why this is a bad idea. The State of Hawaii is still struggling to ... more

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