June 17: CBHV Community Meeting in Wai'anae

The Pasifika Foundation Hawai’i CBHV project team will be meeting with the Wai’anae community on Wednesday, June 17, 2009.

June 17
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Nanakuli High School, Building U
Multi-Purpose Room
Hosted by Hale Ola Ho’opakolea

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 the Wai’anae community 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