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Attend a festival or event. Doing so will introduce you to local culture, food, music, and the people you’re visiting. To find an event, bookmarkPark in marked stalls and follow all traffic signage. It’s shocking how many visitors don’t do this! Making your own parking space in someone’s yard or driveway so you can get to the beach easier is insensitive, illegal, and greatly inconveniences the resident.
—Kainoa Daines, co-author of Island Wisdom and senior director of brand for the Hawai‘i Visitors & Convention BureauAs Hawaiians, we’re taught many traditional values when we’re young, and we live by them for our whole lives. One that can be especially useful when you visit isWhile this concept has many definitions, the one that aligns the most with tourism means righteousness, or doing the right thing to stay on track.