The new hotel room tax called the Green Fee (with the cute double meaning because it refers both to environmental causes and the governor’s last name) passed because it finally won the support of members of the Hawaiʻi hotel industry after years of the visitor industry fighting against the idea.
Coincidentally, under this new law, hotels can get the state to pay to fix the erosion and do other mitigation projects in front of their properties in places that are being chewed up by the surf because the hotel was built so close to the ocean.
Got it…