Exacting resort developers to create non-tourism jobs
Mak, J.
Annals of Tourism Research 20(2): 250-261
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0160-7383 DOI: 10.1016/0160-7383(93)90053-6Document Number: 424780
This paper describes and evaluates an innovative economic diversification policy implemented in 1990 by the state of Hawaii. The policy requires hotel developers to create one non-tourism job in the economy in order to obtain state government permission to build one hotel room in resort developments that require land to be reclassified from agricultural, rural, or conservation uses to urban use. Alternatively, the developer may make a front-end cash payment of $25 000 per proposed hotel room to finance job training, business loans and other incentive programmes to facilitate economic diversification. The purpose of the policy is to extract economic rents from resort developers to finance non-tourism related development.
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