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Did You Know?

I am asked a lot of questions by visitors to Maui, the answers to which I've sometimes just discovered!

People are curious... They want to know more about our island paradise...  Wouldn't it be nice to be able to answer them intelligently?

The County of Maui has produced a full-color brochure that they are sending to interested businesses worldwide, hoping to influence new business to locate here.  The publication has beautiful photographs, is well-written and it also has a lot of facts.  Let me give you a few examples.

Maui is 48 miles long and 26 miles wide.  Personally, I thought it was a lot longer than 48 miles.  Take the one trip to Hana in East Maui and you'll swear it's a lot longer.

The average low temperature at Kahului Airport is 67.4 degrees and the average high is 83.7.  I am asked this question a lot.  Since there are so many areas where it is cooler or warmer. the airport is probably a good reference point.

Want an easy question?  What's the biggest industry on Maui?  If you guessed tourism, you are right.  That may seem rather obvious.  But what is the second-biggest industry?  Pineapple? Sugar? Wrong!  It is high-technology.  Maui has evolved into a growing high-tech center that could mean higher-paying jobs and environmentally friendly businesses for us in the future.  To me that's really exciting.

...more in a few days!