
Douglas Chang appointed chair of CNHA's Kilohana Collective Transition Team
The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA) announced today that Douglas Chang, General Manager of the Ritz-Carlton Residences,...
Hawaiʻi sits in an unpredictable sea of climate change, over-tourism, economic instability, and global pandemics—waves that could inundate our fragile ecosystems and strained communities, overwhelming all that we treasure about our home.
CNHA heard the kāhea from HTA and put forward this plan, together with a group of those kamaʻāina to Hawaiʻi, to carry this critical kuleana for our beloved home.
In 2020, the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority put forward a new Strategic Plan, setting a vision and charting a course for a regenerative model of tourism that offers more to our communities than it takes. It is based upon four core pillars:
NATURAL RESOURCES - Respect for Our Natural & Cultural Resources
HAWAIIAN CULTURE - Support Native Hawaiian Culture & Community
COMMUNITY - Ensure Tourism & Communities Enrich Each Other
BRAND MARKETING - Strengthen Tourism’s Contributions
See HTA’s Strategic Plan
“Hawaiʻi, the visitor industry, and the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority are all in a time of Huliau, in which an accelerated shift toward destination management is necessary in order for tourism to properly support the revitalization of our communities and economy in a more meaningful and reciprocal way.”
- John De Fries
HTA President and CEO
Kilohana is a collaborative of complementary change agents committed to fulfilling HTA’s vision and specific directives. Our nexus of organizations are involved in communication, creative design, facilitation, coordination, and community engagement. Kilohana is poised to work alongside community, industry, and government stakeholders. Together we symbolically form a pāwehe pattern emblematic of our varied experiences and abilities cohesively brought together to achieve the excellence embodied in a beautifully designed kilohana placed atop layers of soft kapa fit for the moena of an ʻohana’s most honored guests.
Together, Kilohana will work to achieve:
The development a compelling message to connect to the positive-impact, mindful traveler
Create an in-market experience framed by a kuleana-based relationship between malihini and kamaʻāina that invests in strong visitor lifetime value
Deliver a Marketing Plan and Global Support Services Plan with professional excellence, informed by meaningful research and HTA’s brand guidance
Invest in Destination Management Action Plans that empower Hawaiʻi’s communities and people, fulfills kuleana to mālama ʻāina, builds capacity for increased economic development, and centers Hawaiʻi’s people and cultures in Hawaiʻi’s brand
Ignite a transformative huliau that creates new life and builds new bridges between community, industry, and malihini
Our partners include:
Solutions Pacific
Transition Team
As we reflect on Hawai‘i’s history, we see moments that were ripe for huliau, windows when deep transformation could readily occur. There is perhaps no better moment than today, in the anticipated wake of COVID-19, to boldly transform tourism, Hawai‘i’s chief economic driver, to a regenerative model that Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority is set to lead.
We are honored to have a Transition Team made up of a passionate and diverse group of tourism experts and community leaders, committed to HTA’s vision of a regenerative tourism model. While HTA is moving forward with the RFP process, the CNHA and the Kilohana Collective are continuing our planning efforts so that we are ready to proceed pending the outcome of the RFP process. The team’s kuleana is to solidify the roles and leadership of Kilohana and support the transition with our communities and industries.
Doug Chang
Chair of Transition Team
General Manager, Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikīkī and former HTA Chair
Amy Kalili
Interim Executive Director, Kilohana Collective, and Partner, Pilina First LLP
Aaron Salā
Director of Cultural Affairs, Royal Hawaiian Center and former HTA Chair
Kūhaʻo Zane
COO & Creative Director, Sig Zane Designs and President, Edith Kanakaʻole Foundation
Ann Botticelli
former Hawaiian Airlines Senior VP of Corporate Communications and Public Relations
Micah Kāne
CEO and President, Hawai‘i Community Foundation
Rebecca Soon
President,
Ward Research
Frank Haas
former HTA Vice President and Director of Marketing and current visitor industry consultant
Kuʻuipo Kumukahi
Manager of Hawaiian Culture, Hyatt Regency Waikīkī
Roy Tokujo
ʻUlalena founder and former HTA Chair
Corbett Kalama
Executive Vice President, The Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation
Kūhiō Lewis
CEO,
Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement
Sun Wong
Principal, CM Marketing Group and former chair of O‘ahu Visitors Bureau
With deep aloha for Hawaiʻi, CNHA presented this proposal for the Hawaiʻi Destination Brand Marketing and Management Services of the United States Major Market Area on behalf of our Kilohana Collective.
COUNCIL for NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT
Headquartered in Kapolei, The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA) is a member-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization with a mission to enhance the cultural, economic, political, and community development of Native Hawaiians.
For over 20 years, we have provided access to capital, financial education and individualized financial counseling services with a focus on low and moderate-income families. CNHA is also Native Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) certified by the U.S. Treasury department and a HUD-Certified Housing Counseling agency and serves as a National Intermediary, providing grants and loans targeting underserved communities in Hawaiʻi.