Beautiful beaches, tropical weather and the promise of leaving your everyday worries behind help portray Hawai’i as the ideal travel destination—a paradise—for anyone living on the mainland. However, the influx of tourists stretches already limited resources even thinner, causing Native Hawaiians to reap the negative consequences of having an economy so heavily reliant on the travel industry. According to the University of Hawai’i, tourism accounts for almost a quarter of the state’s economy.