Peter Apo

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The impact of tourism on the islands has brought both prosperity and pain. Hawaiians have been irrelevant to industry growth and passions run high on the price of paradise. An examination of the tourism growth model and lessons learned from a native Hawaiian perspective.

A power point presentation for new arrivals relocating or intending to do business in Hawaiʻi over an extended period of time. Hawaiʻi is unique among the 50 states in its history, cultural diversity, lifestyle, politics, volcanic geography, and tapestry of social systems. New arrivals sometimes have a challenge in understanding what they are experiencing and seeing in their daily routines as they go about their business. This seminar is designed to help facilitate their understanding of Hawaiʻi as a place to live and do business.

A creation of the 1978 Constitutional Convention, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is a placeholder until such time that Hawaiians regain some form of sovereignty and obtain control of their own destiny. What does this mean for the rest of Hawaiʻi?

After more than 100 years of painful recovery from our loss of sovereignty, dignity, honor, culture, and land, Hawaiians have risen from the brink of cultural extinction to unprecedented capacity to chart our own economic destiny in a way that brings prosperity to all.