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Podcast: Spotlight Hawaii
Episode: Mike McCartney, Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, and Jeff Wagoner of Outrigger Hotels and Resorts
Description: Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism director Mike McCartney and Outrigger Hotels and Resorts President & CEO, Jeff Wagoner joined Spotlight Hawaii to discuss reopening transpacific travel. Both expressed optimism in the October 15th launch of Hawaii’s pre-arrival testing program.
“We’ve been working hard to operationalize it, to make sure the pieces are in place,” McCartney said. “There’s gonna be maybe a few kinks but we’ll do just continuous improvement and continuous communication to the visitor, the traveler, the resident. And the key to all this is, we want our employees to feel safe, we want...