Jason Momoa urged followers to not travel to Maui amid the devastation from the wildfires, saying people should "not convince" themselves they're needed.
I know this is more “celebrity” than news, but I’d seen discussions on whether it was better to visit (as a misguided attempt to help via tourism dollars) or stay away.
If you’d actually bothered reading any of those, you would have realise that that wasn’t actually true (almost none of the money actually goes to the natives and nor do many of the jobs), but sure, keep your head in the sand, I hear it’s cosy, just like the fantasy that you know better than the people actually living there.
I know this is more “celebrity” than news, but I’d seen discussions on whether it was better to visit (as a misguided attempt to help via tourism dollars) or stay away.
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These aren’t from this current crisis, but I have a feeling the sentiments haven’t changed much:
https://mymodernmet.com/lily-hiilani-okimura-hawaii-tourism/
https://www.irreview.org/articles/hawaii-tourism-opposite-of-a-paradise-for-locals
https://taiswim.co/blogs/bikini-blog/why-you-should-not-come-to-hawaii-for-your-next-vacation
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If you’d actually bothered reading any of those, you would have realise that that wasn’t actually true (almost none of the money actually goes to the natives and nor do many of the jobs), but sure, keep your head in the sand, I hear it’s cosy, just like the fantasy that you know better than the people actually living there.
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