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Debbie Cabebe, CEO of Maui Economic Opportunity, said in an email to the Star-Advertiser that, "We have received hundreds of applications for the Maui County Business Bridge Grant program from the ...
Aug. 21—Javier Cantellops, owner and president of Kihei-based Maui Dreams Dive Co. and Island Style Diving, said in the days since the deadly Lahaina wildfire, business on Maui has dropped so ...
The Maui Economic Development Board says tourism is "irrefutably" the economic engine of Maui, which saw 1.4 million visitors in just the first half of 2023.
Maui Bus is the public transportation service of the island of Maui, Hawaii, and is operated by Roberts Hawaii under a public-private partnership with Maui County government. They operate 13 regular local bus routes and 4 commuter routes, which have a single early morning run and a return trip in the afternoon.
But that figure plunged to 793,000 during the height of the pandemic in 2020, according to the Maui Economic Development Board. A year later, 2.3 million people visited Maui. Last year, the number ...
Some examples of these are an economic recession, airline strikes, or varying fuel prices which could devastate the local economy. [122] The devastating national economic recession of 2008, hit Hawaii's tourism industry hard. In 2008, hotel occupancy dropped to 60 percent, a level not seen since the terrorist attacks in 2001.
The Mayor has municipal jurisdiction over the islands of Kahoolawe, Lanai, Maui and Molokai. The Mayor of Maui County is the successor of the Royal Governor of Maui of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The current mayor of Maui County is former State jurist Richard Bissen. Bissen was elected as mayor in 2022, defeating his predecessor Mike Victorino. [2]
When the program finally launched in November as a collaboration between Maui County, the state of Hawaii, Maui Economic Opportunity (MEO), and Maui Economic Development Board, there was only $12. ...