Kauai corporations use large discounts to attract customers

LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) – Kauai companies are offering significant reductions to attract consumers after a near-absolute end of sightseeing on the Hawaiian island due to the coronavirus outbreak in the spring. Businesses are offering refunds as a gesture to citizens who have also felt the economic influence of lost visitors, The Garden Island reported Thursday. No out-of-state travelers flew to Lihue Airport on July 13, while only 2,533 other Americans arrived in the state during an era when the Hawaii Tourism Authority said there were 35,000 arrivals last year. Kauai companies presented reductions in products and services, adding horseback riding, ice scraping and wedding ceremonies. Some of the reduction offers are posted on the Kauai Visitors Office website. The site was resumed recently after Democratic Gov. David Ige approved the recovery of inter-island travel, visitors’ executive director Sue Kanoho said in an email. Donna Hunt, director of advertising at Silver Falls Ranch in Kilauea, said there were 750 bookings for the riding station with a 60% to 70% reduction. “Three-quarters of our visitors were Kauai,” Hunt said. Daniel Soule, owner of Fresh Shave in Kalaheo, said providing some shaving-flavored ice cream is a reminder for citizens to “go out even in times of uncertainty.” Joyful-Ceremonies and Weddings now offers a 25% discount on wedding ceremonies at either until the end of the year. The owner, Dale Rosenfeld, said that 99% of her business commonly comes from tourists and that the shed is a gesture of goodwill towards the community, where she said that physical fitness deserves to be pre-profit. “I’m in no hurry to see the island open even though the economy is devastating,” Rosenfeld said. For the maximum of other Americans, coronavirus causes mild or moderate effects …

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