{"id":4315,"date":"2025-09-19T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:29:58","slug":"taxing-tourists-for-climate-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/taxing-tourists-for-climate-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxing Tourists for Climate Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii is on the verge of increasing fees on tourists \u00a0from 10.25 percent to 11 percent to raise about $100 million\u00a0yearly, all of which will be spent for projects like coral reef restoration, sand replenishment for eroding beaches, \u00a0hurricane preparation, and removal of invasive grasses\u00a0like the ones that <a href=\"https:\/\/heated.world\/p\/lahaina-used-to-be-wetland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fueled the deadly wildfires in Lahaina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The reality of Hawaii&#8217;s tourist climate tax<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/heated.world\/p\/the-reality-of-hawaiis-tourist-climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/heated.world\/p\/the-reality-of-hawaiis-tourist-climate<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9798263756543\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii is on the verge of increasing fees on tourists \u00a0from 10.25 percent to 11 percent to raise about $100 million\u00a0yearly, all of which will be spent for projects like coral reef restoration, sand replenishment for eroding beaches, \u00a0hurricane preparation, and removal of invasive grasses\u00a0like the ones that fueled the deadly wildfires in Lahaina. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/taxing-tourists-for-climate-impact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Taxing Tourists for Climate Impact&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,25,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-environment","category-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}