Compare Honolulu w[?]
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What Tourist
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Compare Honolulu w[?] Suva
THERE are those who shrink f the thought of Suva or A becoming tourist resorts Honolulu. Whether it is bettei remain poor and “unspoiled”—wl generally includes inferior he: and educational facilities —or to come “spoiled” like Hawaii, ii debatable point.
There is food for thought ii US Department of Commerce port on Hawaii’s 1953 incc Hawaii’s per capita income has n than tripled since 1939, largely to tourism and its associated dustries.
Per capita income in 1939 $525 (£A235/10/-) per annum. 1953 it was $1,740 (£A7BO). population of Hawaii was t 511,000 (Fiji, 321,000 at that tin and it had increased by 1.8 cent, on the previous year. T personal income increased from million in 1939 to $BB9 million 1953. From that income the C ernment obtained $lO6 mil (£47,600,000) in taxes—leaving citizen, on a per capital basis, 1 $1,532 actually to spend. Per ca income actually rose by 1.1 per o from 1952 to 1953.
Although Hawaii’s populs (511,000) is not vastly greater t that of Fiji (350,000)—the aren the two territories is about same —there is an indication of] number of people associated the tourist industry in the o parative populations of Hono city and Suva city—233,ooo as o pared with 25,000.
Honolulu now has 46 major toi hotels and 3 television stations,, there are 12 or more broadcas stations in the territory; and: course, numerous small induss associated with the tourist tra» Yet the land is in no neglected. Hawaii produces a* the same amount of sugar as< and, in addition, has the lai pineapple industry in the won over 73,000 acres, with 9 canne and an output worth $lOO mii in 1953. Tourists in that year s $361 million in Hawaii. The <• ernment gathered $5 million direct tourist taxes.
As a result of all this, Haws fairly well provided with thee sirable things of life—l9s public: 125 private schools through to versity standard, for example, ci; ing for 122,000 children; ano adult education service whe catered for 12,000 persons at centres in 1953.