April 28 & 29: CBHV Community Meetings on Hawai'i Island

The Pasifika Foundation Hawai’i CBHV project team will be meeting with Hawai’i Island communities on April 28 & 29, 2009.

April 28
HILO
5:30-7:30 p.m.
Queen Lili’uokalani Children’s Center
919 Ululani Street, Hilo
Hosted by Kua O Ka La Public Charter School

April 29
KONA
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Pu’uhonua O Honaunau
National Park Amphitheater
Hosted by Makani Hou O Kalolo-Honokohau

For many years, Maoli communities in Hawai‘i have been advocating for more community-based control of the way in which visitors are invited into our islands and engage with the host culture.

Pasifika Foundation Hawaii’s Community-based Host-Visitor (CBHV) project seeks to turn the way Hawai‘i looks at “tourism” on its head, focusing not on ever-increasing growth, filling more seats on planes and beds in hotels, and creating tourism experiences geared to the visitor’s vacation fantasies, but instead on Maoli communities and their own community goals and objectives.

The concept is not about making tourism sustainable, it’s about creating sustainable communities that may choose to share their culture with visitors as part of their model for sustainability.

Ramsay Taum will share the story of the CBHV project, which is in its third phase of development in which a tested model, ready for broad implementation, will be created. We’d like you to be part of the process of the creation of that model.

Pasifika Foundation Hawai’i has been invited to talk story with Hawai’i Island communities about this project, and to hear your thoughts about how a community-based host-visitor model might benefit your community. Please join us and help explore what creative ideas may come forth from our collective minds. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, email Ana Currie