The town of Leavenworth, Wash., needed to attract tourism. It turned itself into a Bavarian mountain village.

It worked. The visitors come and the town prospers.

Let Waikiki return to its natural state and make it a Polynesian Venice.

It would be unique in all the world. The Las Vegas hotel, The Venetian, has to fake a canal. We have a real one, and the potential for more among redesigned hotels.

Ride a gondola or canoe down Kalakaua Avenue to your over-water hotel room.

Beverly Kai

Kakaako

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