Former Gov. George Ariyoshi heads Prince Resorts Hawaii, a Japanese-owned group. Famous local chefs and restaurant operators include Sam Choy, Alan Wong and Roy Yamaguchi. IN addition to stories of local men and women making good in the hotel field here, Hawaii also is a training ground for travel industry service afar. Our overall visitor facility concentration is one of the world's biggest. It is high on professionalism, the art of making what is tough look easy.
Visitors keep giving Hawaii high marks for visitor satisfaction.
Our local youths are growing up in the midst of one of the world's best travel industry learning labs. More and more now seem to be taking advantage of it. His column runs Tuesday and Thursday.