Hawaii's mid-Pacific location provides businesses with a major advantage in accessing Asia-Pacific markets.  Other advantages include:

Extensive travel and communications networks.  Hawaii is served by over 30 airlines offering more than 600 arrivals and departures per week.

Excellent ground-based communication facilities.  Hawaii has direct links to all major Pacific communications satellites.  Fiber-optic cables connect the state digitally with North America and Asia.

Business hours overlap those of the Eastern United States and Asia, enabling same-day communications.

Honolulu: Gateway between East and West
As the capitol city of the State of Hawaii, Honolulu is the regional center of the Pacific for commerce, tele-communications, and the growing high-technology niche areas of bio-technology and software development, in a unique, multi-ethnic, cross cultural setting that serves as the perfect gateway between the East and the West.

Hawaii's Foreign Investment Advantage
Hawaii is one of the few states designated as a Regional Center by the U. S. Federal Government, and in that capacity has developed one of the biggest immigrant investor programs in the entire country.

Hawaii's Niche Economic Opportunities
Hawaii's economy is primarily focused on two industries: Tourism and Military. The state is working in conjunction with the private sector to develop and grow unique niche markets that Hawaii is in a position to take advantage of Hawaii's geographic and time zone advantages.