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Podcast: Spotlight Hawaii
Episode: Mike McCartney, director of state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism
Description: Mike McCartney, director of Hawaii State Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, joined the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s Spotlight Hawaii to talk about the economic impact of the coronavirus on the state economy.
“Hawaii is going to be one of the last states to recover according to Moody’s Analytics, that just came out yesterday,” he said.
Before the pandemic, McCartney says tourists brought in roughly $50 million dollars a day to the state of Hawaii, so figuring out how to bring some of that spending back in a safe way is critical.
“We’re trying to...