The president of the Hawai’i Hotel Association Kaua’i chapter likes his industry’s chances for survival even while other destinations have ostensibly written off the first half of next year as a loss as a result of war and terrorist events
The president of the Hawai’i Hotel Association Kaua’i chapter likes his industry’s chances for survival even while other destinations have ostensibly written off the first half of next year as a loss as a result of war and terrorist events on and since September 11.
“If you have a decent group base, and some (individual) people travel, you can do fair,” said Jerry Gibson, HHA Kaua’i president and general manager of the Hyatt Regency Kaua’i Resort & Spa in Po’ipu.
“I don’t think it’s going to be great guns the first six months (of 2002), but I think we’re all going to survive. We have two (nonstop) flights coming in to the island, (United Airlines from) San Francisco and L.A., and that’s a big plus to our community,” Gibson said.
“And the timeshare base will allow the flights to keep coming in. In other words, I don’t believe that United will cancel either one of them because the yields on the flights are pretty good. So that’s a plus.
“I think as long as we can chug along and wait out the economy, we’ll be OK,” Gibson concluded.
