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<br />Kalani , Director of Hawaiian Cultural Affairs and Natural Resources <br />Hawaii Tourism Authority <br /> <br />helping the state mitigate the damaging effects of <br />plastic waste. HTA supports the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals and promotes visitor <br />industry alignment with the Aloha+ Challenge. <br /> <br />Regenerative marketing efforts, with destination management <br />as a major focus. HTA is guided by a natural resources pillar and is committed to supporting programs that <br /> programs that have impactful and meaningful <br />milestones in this pillar as indicated in its Strategic Plan 2020- <br />sustainable efforts of the visitor industr <br /> <br />HTA continues to encourage hotels to go green in an effort to be sustainable. One of the initiatives includes <br />challenging hotels to do away with small single-use plastic bottles that are often filled with shampoo, <br />conditioner and body lotion. In addition, HTA encouraged hotels to do away with single-use plastic water <br />bottles. However, the COVID-19 pandemic created some challenges in this initiative, with many of the <br />hotels across the state shut down or only partially operating, with tourism at a near halt since the start of <br />the 14-day mandatory quarantine at the end of March 2020. <br /> <br />HTA realizes the goal of a more plastics--term one. It is also part of creating a <br />number one industry needs to be the leader in the efforts to protect the land and invest in the future. <br /> <br />14 <br /> <br /> <br />