How To Prepare Hawaii For Chinese Tourism

How To Prepare Hawaii For Chinese Tourism
A ground staff member works towards an Air China Ltd. aircraft at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. Airline profits worldwide in 2013 will be 7.9 percent smaller than estimated at $11.7 billion amid sluggish travel demand and rising oil prices tied to the Syria crisis, the International Air Transport Association said last month. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A ground staff member works towards an Air China Ltd. aircraft at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. Airline profits worldwide in 2013 will be 7.9 percent smaller than estimated at $11.7 billion amid sluggish travel demand and rising oil prices tied to the Syria crisis, the International Air Transport Association said last month. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The first regularly scheduled commercial passenger flights arriving direct from Beijing touched down in Honolulu this week. There will be more.

China Airlines was the first to reach the landing gate; Hawaiian Airlines will get into the act starting in April. It’s true that the volume of visitors from China remains small — the Hawaii Tourism Authority projects a total of 182,000 for this year. By way of comparison, nearly 162,000 Japanese came to Hawaii last August alone.

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