“Things are changing.”Hawaii island’s $2.4bn tourism industry is struggling in the wake of the Kilauea volcano eruptions, with bookings for May through July down 50%, according to the Island of Hawaii Visitors Bureau. If tourism falters much longer, Collier reasoned, there’s still plenty of work in the astronomy industry located on this 13,000-foot-high dormant volcano. But his feelings about the volcano are mixed: it is eruptions like Kilauea’s that created the island in the first place. Until the eruption, tourism on Hawaii was growing. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents watch lava erupting from a Kilauea volcano fissure in Leilani Estates, on Hawaii’s Big Island, on 23 May 2018 in Pahoa, Hawaii.

Source: The Guardian May 27, 2018 06:00 UTC