September 28, 2024 • 5 mins
Over in Hawaii, tourism officials are looking to encourage Kiwi tourists to check out their island community for the summer.
Hawaiian Airlines has brought back their direct seasonal service to New Zealand and they're encouraging travellers to support local communities through their latest global campaign.
BloggerAtLarge writer Megan Singleton says the new 'The People, The Place, The Hawaiian Islands' is designed to showcase the region's food, music, culture and local events.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks atb Travel with Wendy wu Tours unique
fully inclusive tours around the World.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Meghan Singleton is with us now blogger at large dot
com to talk travelal Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Good morning, Francesca.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hawaii wants us. He has been very very encouraging in yeah,
trying to tempt us to head their way. I'd love to,
and it's good to see that the fairs are getting
a little bit more affordable.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Exactly, Well, there was some Hawaii tourism folks in town
last week to meet up with travel agents and to
talk up and sprook the country, and I learned a
few things. Firstly, I learned do you know the Hawaii
Aloha hand signal, the Hawaii shaka? I learned where that
came from? Do you know where that came from? It's
(00:56):
a very interesting story. So it came from there was
a local man named Harmanka Leely who in the nineteen
forties used to work in the local sugar mill squeezing
sugar cane. You know this is going, don't you, And
he squeezed his fingers and he lost his three middle
fingers so they don't laugh. It wasn't fun. So they
(01:21):
had to give him a new job. And so they
gave him a job supervising the train that would come
slowly through to collect the sugar cane and leave. And
so he stop it. He would wave his thumb and
his pinky finger with his two three missing fingers to say, yep,
all clear, all good train, you know, kids stop not
(01:42):
running around.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
All good.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And so the locals used to took it on. They
wave back, so they would bend their three fingers down
and they would greet him, and thus began the Hawaii
Aloha wave.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
There we go. That was a little bit going. We
didn't know before to day that we nowok.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
A bit of knowledge that you might look at might
be useful when you're playing the pub quiz Edney who.
What I have learned is that they're really focusing on
a new kind of global campaign. They want to get people,
you know, out of Waikiki, you know, out of the
mall and further afield. So they're really focusing on the
people the place, the Hawaiian Islands. That's going to be
(02:21):
looking at local food. It could even be just food
truck food, but local cuisine, music, culture, events and getting
around the islands. So that's quite cool and I quite
liked that. And then, as you said, there's some tempting
airfares on and I just chucked February and just have
a bit of a look under five hundred dollars one
way on both their New Zealand and Hawaiian lines. Hawaii
(02:43):
are returning. Hawaiian Lines are returning to New Zealand for
the summer for our summer season from November to April
next year, So that's all pretty good. On another one
other thing is they NCL does a cruise seven days
cruise every Saturday year round, and I'm just thinking that
is really cool. That could be quite a fun thing
(03:04):
to do a little seven day island hop and they
only sail at night, so you can get off and
do blue Hours and things like that on the local islands,
come back on board, sleep on the ship, wake up
at the next island, and then you could do a
few days in the Wahu and you could maybe stop
at Alimauana, or you go round the island and you
stay somewhere else, or you go up to the pipeline
and if it's the months for the pipeline surf which
(03:29):
is October too March, so fits those airfare dates quite nicely.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And I see that Maui of course is desperate for
the business, and they're offering some good deals as well.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah. Yeah, and of course they after the big fires
that they had through Lahaina and Kannapali, so they had
some people come down here and tell us all about
the refurbishments that have happened, and yeah, they really really
want the business. So yeah, they made no bones about that.
And there's a lot of new hotels that have gone up,
some not charging resort fee, which is a typical American
(04:01):
thing that you end up with another you know, thirty
fifty dollars a day on your hotel booking and they
call resort fee, and so that's annoying. So some of
them don't charge that. It was it was really interesting
evening that I went.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
To, hey, really quickly, how many New Zealanders do you
think we'll forget to get their UK visa before they
head off?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You know, how are you going to have to pay
to visit the UK from now?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Oh? Oh, does that finally no, does it finally come in?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well not yet, but it is going to here, So
you're going to have to I think it's like ten
ten pounds or something. It's nothing made. You're going to
have to jump online and you're going to have to
order it. You know, you're going to have to order
it digitally, and you're gonna have to get a quick
approval before you land. And I'm sure that there are
going to be lots of Kiwis that are going to
completely forget to do this when it comes into play. Anyway,
we'll talk about that another time. For more travel information,
(04:56):
you can head to blogger at large dot.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Com for more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin.
Listen live to news Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks atb Travel with Wendy wu Tours unique
fully inclusive tours around the World.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Meghan Singleton is with us now blogger at large dot
com to talk travelal Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Good morning, Francesca.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hawaii wants us. He has been very very encouraging in yeah,
trying to tempt us to head their way. I'd love to,
and it's good to see that the fairs are getting
a little bit more affordable.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Exactly, Well, there was some Hawaii tourism folks in town
last week to meet up with travel agents and to
talk up and sprook the country, and I learned a
few things. Firstly, I learned do you know the Hawaii
Aloha hand signal, the Hawaii shaka? I learned where that
came from? Do you know where that came from? It's
(00:56):
a very interesting story. So it came from there was
a local man named Harmanka Leely who in the nineteen
forties used to work in the local sugar mill squeezing
sugar cane. You know this is going, don't you, And
he squeezed his fingers and he lost his three middle
fingers so they don't laugh. It wasn't fun. So they
(01:21):
had to give him a new job. And so they
gave him a job supervising the train that would come
slowly through to collect the sugar cane and leave. And
so he stop it. He would wave his thumb and
his pinky finger with his two three missing fingers to say, yep,
all clear, all good train, you know, kids stop not
(01:42):
running around.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
All good.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And so the locals used to took it on. They
wave back, so they would bend their three fingers down
and they would greet him, and thus began the Hawaii
Aloha wave.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
There we go. That was a little bit going. We
didn't know before to day that we nowok.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
A bit of knowledge that you might look at might
be useful when you're playing the pub quiz Edney who.
What I have learned is that they're really focusing on
a new kind of global campaign. They want to get people,
you know, out of Waikiki, you know, out of the
mall and further afield. So they're really focusing on the
people the place, the Hawaiian Islands. That's going to be
(02:21):
looking at local food. It could even be just food
truck food, but local cuisine, music, culture, events and getting
around the islands. So that's quite cool and I quite
liked that. And then, as you said, there's some tempting
airfares on and I just chucked February and just have
a bit of a look under five hundred dollars one
way on both their New Zealand and Hawaiian lines. Hawaii
(02:43):
are returning. Hawaiian Lines are returning to New Zealand for
the summer for our summer season from November to April
next year, So that's all pretty good. On another one
other thing is they NCL does a cruise seven days
cruise every Saturday year round, and I'm just thinking that
is really cool. That could be quite a fun thing
(03:04):
to do a little seven day island hop and they
only sail at night, so you can get off and
do blue Hours and things like that on the local islands,
come back on board, sleep on the ship, wake up
at the next island, and then you could do a
few days in the Wahu and you could maybe stop
at Alimauana, or you go round the island and you
stay somewhere else, or you go up to the pipeline
and if it's the months for the pipeline surf which
(03:29):
is October too March, so fits those airfare dates quite nicely.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And I see that Maui of course is desperate for
the business, and they're offering some good deals as well.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah. Yeah, and of course they after the big fires
that they had through Lahaina and Kannapali, so they had
some people come down here and tell us all about
the refurbishments that have happened, and yeah, they really really
want the business. So yeah, they made no bones about that.
And there's a lot of new hotels that have gone up,
some not charging resort fee, which is a typical American
(04:01):
thing that you end up with another you know, thirty
fifty dollars a day on your hotel booking and they
call resort fee, and so that's annoying. So some of
them don't charge that. It was it was really interesting
evening that I went.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
To, hey, really quickly, how many New Zealanders do you
think we'll forget to get their UK visa before they
head off?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
What?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You know, how are you going to have to pay
to visit the UK from now?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Oh? Oh, does that finally no, does it finally come in?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well not yet, but it is going to here, So
you're going to have to I think it's like ten
ten pounds or something. It's nothing made. You're going to
have to jump online and you're going to have to
order it. You know, you're going to have to order
it digitally, and you're gonna have to get a quick
approval before you land. And I'm sure that there are
going to be lots of Kiwis that are going to
completely forget to do this when it comes into play. Anyway,
we'll talk about that another time. For more travel information,
(04:56):
you can head to blogger at large dot.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Com for more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin.
Listen live to news Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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