( ) -q-22- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “period in 2022.” So few tourists are coming to the Hawaiian island of Maui after last month’s wildfires that restaurants and tour companies are laying off workers and unemployment is surging. [CutID: <Cuts> MAUI-TOURISM-house-q-FRIam.mp3 Time: 22s Title: MAUI-TOURISM-house-q-FRIam Out-cue: period in 2022] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. University […]
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Maui beckons tourists, and their dollars, to stave off economic disaster after wildfires
( ) -q-22- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “period in 2022.”
So few tourists are coming to the Hawaiian island of Maui after last month’s wildfires that restaurants and tour companies are laying off workers and unemployment is surging.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. University of Hawaii economists expect Maui’s jobless rate to climb as high as 10%.
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VERBATIM: State tourism officials initially urged travelers to stay away. They now want them to come back as long as they refrain from going to the burn zone and surrounding area. Nearly 8,000 Hawaiians filed for unemployment on Maui during the last three weeks of August. That’s a huge leap from 295 people during the same period in 2022.