HONOLULU (KHON2) -- Here in Downtown Honolulu, the Hawaii Theatre, the Sun Yat-Sun Park will be transformed tomorrow for the first every Dine, Art, Shop, Love (DASL) Honolulu Festival. Get Hawaii's latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You We hear about tourism, regenerative tourism and this new effort taking place throughout Hawaii. This is going to be one of those events that will contribute to that so there is so much to learn about this. $3.45M grant addresses Oahu’s demand for safer streets We are here with Guillaume Maman who is the Program Manager for the Office of Economic Revitalization. Tell us a little about what is taking place here and what was the catalyst to bring this type of event here in Honolulu. "So, we wanted to make sure that we can demonstrate that tourism can have a positive impact on our local communities, on our local businesses so we created the Dine, Art, Shop and Love event or what we call DASL in short, and we are going to bring art and different performances here in Chinatown at and around the Hawaii Theatre," said Maman. "And most important thing, its free. Everything is free so if you ever wanted to visit the Hawaii Theatre, its going to be free. You can go inside. Of course, the performances outside will be free as well and the parking will be free as well thanks to one of our sponsors, Avalon. We are very excited about that." We are here with Sarah Moy, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii President. How is an event like this going to impact the community here in Chinatown? "This festival creates a wonderful opportunity for the merchants in Chinatown to showcase the diverse and unique shopping and dining that benefits Chinatown," says Moy. "It also showcases the art galleries, Chinatown's rich cultural heritage and the trending. This is not just the one-day increasing the foot traffic for Chinatown. It is meant to be so that Chinatown can become a destination place for locals and visitors to come back again and again." As mentioned, this is a pilot program or part of a pilot program contributing to regenerative tourism which is an effort being taken across Hawaii. I am here with Catherine Orlans who is from the Oahu Visitors Bureau. Tell us about, and for those who may not know, what is regenerative tourism and what are the efforts being taken? "This is a perfect example, this event, of regenerative tourism by the city, their effort to help push the needle and pivot the state's direction towards regenerative tourism," explained Orlans. "So, it's a collaboration between state, city and our local community here in Chinatown to make more positive benefits from tourism to our local businesses. This means our residents get more benefits from tourism, whether its through their spending, the local foot traffic getting increased and boosting our overall economic vitality for this community and we hope to do it in other communities as well to spread that demand throughout the island." Check out what's going on around the nation on our National News page What you see behind me today will be all filled up with a lot of activities, tents, stage, music, everything. So, for all the information, again this is called Dine, Art, Shop, Love Honolulu Festival, click here.