The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-05-14
THE TOURIST TRADE.

| The question of why the Hawaiian
tourist trade is falling off suggests to
the Advertiser the following answers:
| /. The fashion of travel, which once
set so strongly towards Hawaii and
Japan, has changed. The reasons why
the attractiveness of Hawaii has been
lessened, are summarized below; the
reasons why Japan, which once gave
us so many stop-over tourists, is less
popular with globetrotters than 1t
was are mainly political. Since the
trouble over China began, tourists have
feared that n visit to the Orient might
be the mans OF shutting them up In
some besieged country. While Japan
and Russia are at odds, the land of the
Mikado will be comparatively Stunned
by the tourist class-and this, OF
course, hurts Hawaii. More people
are now going to Europe; and the open
ing of the American West Indies has
diverted the former routes of those who
have taste for the tropics, People
who were wont to seek the Paradise
of the Pacific now go to the paradises
of the Caribbean sea. whittier they are
conveyed rapidly and cheaply.
.. Hawaii has an unmerited bad
name for epidemics. Tourists are COM
monty health-se and people in
terested in sending them to other
places have, at their tongues ends, the
magnified story of our cholera and bu-
bonic plague visitations. 1t is widely
reported that our laws now exclude
consumptives. Adding to all this the
common fear of leprosy, with which
disease the name of Hawaii was in
cessantly identified by the journals that
opposed annexation on the score of
"Leprosy and Loot."-and there is
quite reason enough, so tourists
think, to keep away,
3. Honolulu has also a name for po-
litical turbulence which the change in
its flag has not yet erased Next to
an epidemic the tourists fear most
revolutionary mob, Nine out of ten
Eastern men will ask you first: Is Ha-
wall healthy The next query will be:
Is life and property safe?
T. Much OF the charm OF Honolulu
went with annexation. The pageantry
OF the old court attracted people here,
and that is no more. The rebuilding OF
the city on more condensed scale
spoiled much Of it's beauty. The cor
respondents say these things TO their
home papers, and people go elsewhere,
ltil III hlail ~ 70 AAhA anu iAb iNlNbs
They want the foreign atmosphere
which those islands still retain. but |
which IS passing from Hawaii nei
What Is 10 be done? Would II pay
TO try ard get the tourist trade back |
again? WIN such trade return 81 a.
self2 Certainly the correction of
errors IN public opinion would be worth /.
while but stern chase after a lie Is |
the longest chase any one can make |
Perhaps II would be as well 90 wait |
until peace in the Philippines draws |
slght-sefrs that way, and 20 catch |
them coming and going Furthermore |
n is reasonable 90 think that sooner I
or later, Interest in Japan may be per. |
mitted % revive. IA which case this |
city wlil collect toll from the through |
tourists as ~ Old.
Hut above AN, Hawai- aouid pront |
most n q CEASED 90 bother about tour |
lHis pna pui in Ne best llfks 90 SCI |
white settlers fof iis vacant ana In
wiling gfrss. A tourist sihgH q month |
. sfiuer lNffiiWfl ana abs latieT |
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