{"id":117010,"date":"2020-04-28T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T22:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=117010"},"modified":"2020-07-16T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T00:00:19","slug":"hawaii-businesses-suffering-during-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/28\/hawaii-businesses-suffering-during-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey finds Hawai\u02bbi businesses suffering during crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_114789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114789\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-covid-waikiki-beach.jpg\" alt=\"empty waikiki beach\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-covid-waikiki-beach.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-covid-waikiki-beach-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-covid-waikiki-beach-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Survey results show the hardest hit industries are hotels and retail businesses. (Photo credit: <span aria-label=\"Hawaii,\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Tourism Authority)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Results of an economic survey show <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> businesses are suffering greatly due to COVID-19 and many look forward to resuming operations once they are cleared to reopen.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, conducted in April 2020 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhero.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Economic Research Organization<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cochawaii.org\/\">Chamber of Commerce Hawaii<\/a>, received responses from 623 businesses. <strong>Philip Garboden<\/strong>, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community Reinvestment Corporation professor in affordable housing, and assistant professor in <abbr>糖心Vlog官方ERO<\/abbr> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/durp\/about\/\">Department of Urban and Regional Planning<\/a> in the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/socialsciences.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Social Sciences<\/a>, said the hardest hit industries are accommodations (hotels), down 83 percent in full-time employee reductions, and retail businesses, down 76 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Garboden also said most businesses surveyed anticipate reopening as soon as they are allowed, and 60 percent said they could return to full staff almost immediately, with the rest phasing in as tourism resumes.<\/p>\n<p>Findings also show that while there have been more cases of job loss on <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>, its percentage (38 percent) is lower than for businesses on Maui (58 percent), <span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> (52 percent) and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Island (48 percent), due to a larger share of tourism-related companies on the neighbor islands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uhero.hawaii.edu\/covid-19s-uneven-impact-on-businesses-and-workers-results-from-a-uhero-chamber-of-commerce-hawaii-survey\/\">Read more on <abbr>糖心Vlog官方ERO<\/abbr>\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方ERO<\/abbr> and the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii survey shows the  hardest hit industries are hotels and retail businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[301,1411,1417,197,1363,9,343,365],"class_list":["post-117010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-research","tag-economics","tag-manoa-research","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uhero","tag-urban-and-regional-planning","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117025,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117010\/revisions\/117025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}