H.C.R. 151 Summary

• Request Hawaii Tourism Authority to develop and implement metrics to regularly track visitor industry impacts on state infrastructure, economy, and environment.

• Require tracking of money spent by tourists that remains in Hawaii's economy and measurement of both negative and positive visitor impacts on infrastructure, economy, and environment.

• Request conversion of Hawaii Tourism Authority staff positions from tourism promoters to economists and social scientists.

• Address concerns that 8.9 million visitors spending $15.6 billion in 2016 create infrastructure stress, higher cost of living, traffic problems, and environmental damage to parks and cultural sites, while benefiting the economy.