Has the ‘Obama Effect’ hit Hawaii?

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  08.03.09 | 3:41 PM ET

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Slate’s Moneybox columnist, Daniel Gross, recently headed to Hawaii to see if the islands’ tourism industry was seeing an Obama bump.  The verdict: “This unreimbursed, hazard-filled assignment—sunburn, expensive macadamia nuts—yielded some surprising findings. Like the stimulus package, the Obama Effect, while holding the promise of gains down the road, hasn’t been able to overcome a sour economic climate.”

Tags: Barack Obama, Tourism, North America, United States, Hawaii, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in Reader's Digest Canada, NationalGeographic.com, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


2 Comments for Has the ‘Obama Effect’ hit Hawaii?

Marianne 08.03.09 | 11:51 PM ET

BOYCOTT HAWAII.  HAWAII GOV WANTS TO LIE TO US THEN DON’T SUPPORT THEM.  LOTS OF OTHER ISLANDS TO VISIT.

TambourineMan 08.05.09 | 9:19 PM ET

You go, Birther girl! I’ll go to Hawaii.

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