Employs interrupted time series analysis to estimate ex post the impact of a hotel room tax on real net hotel revenues by analyzing that time series before and after the imposition of the tax. Finds that the tax had a negligible effect on real hotel revenues.

Many tourist industry officials often lobby their local governments to invest heavily airport infrastructure (e.g. longer runways and larger terminals) in order to accommodate direct flights. We evaluate the impact of the recent initiation of direct flights from the U.S. west coast to Hawaii's...