Mitch Berger ya samu ra'ayin fara rangadin Barack Obama yayin da yake tuka motar daukar masu ziyara zuwa dajin Oahu a watan Satumban da ya gabata.
"Muna kan hanyar zuwa Koolaus a gefen Windward, kuma a kan hanya na nuna Rainbow Drive-in a kan Kapahulu inda Obama ya ci abinci," in ji Berger, mai Guides of Oahu. “Mutanen sun burge kuma sun ce in rage gudu domin su dauki hoto. Kuma ina tunanin, 'Wannan kamar ɗaukar hoto na Zipy's ne.' ”
"Na kalli idanunsu kuma na ga sun yi farin ciki sosai," in ji Berger. "Don haka na yanke shawarar yin cikakken ziyarar Obama."
Ziyarar Obama ita ce sabon kayan yawon buɗe ido na Hawaii, tare da kafaffen kasuwanci kamar na Berger da ƴan kasuwa na farko da ke neman samun kuɗi a tushen sabon shugaban a Honolulu.
Ya zuwa yanzu babu wanda ke samun makudan kudade a rangadin da kuma wasu daga cikin kutsen da ake ta yadawa game da shugaban na farko haifaffen Hawaii tuni ke dusashewa.
A cikin watanni biyar da ƙidaya, Berger yana gudanar da ɗaya daga cikin tsofaffin tafiye-tafiyen Obama kuma yana jan hankalin mutane kusan 25 a mako. Ziyarar sa ta sa'o'i biyu da rabi ta kai dala 40 ga kowane mutum.
"Kuma yana girma," in ji Berger, wanda ke da motocin fasinja guda biyu 15, karamar motar bas mai kujeru 24 da kuma shafin yanar gizo, www.obamatourhawaii.com, wanda ya jawo hankalin Australia, Brazil da Turai. "Ba a maye gurbin yawon shakatawa na dazuzzuka ba, amma kasuwanci yana farawa."
Akalla kamfanoni 20 da ke amfani da "Obama" a cikin sunayensu sun yi rajistar kasuwanci tare da Ma'aikatar Kasuwanci & Kasuwanci ta Jiha a cikin watanni kafin da kuma bayan zaben.
Yawancinsu kamfanonin yawon bude ido ne, da suka hada da Obama Ohana Tour, Obama's Roots Hawaiian Tours, da kuma Sawun Obama na Hawai. Da yawa ba su taɓa wuce haɗawa ba.
Littattafai da taswira da ƙari
Ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka fara shiga wasan shine Ron Jacobs, wanda ya rubuta "Obamaland: Wanene Barack Obama?" (Bugawar Kasuwanci, Honolulu; $19.95).
Mutumin gidan rediyo na gida da Mainland, Jacobs ya yi rajistar "Obama Land Hawaii" a ranar 19 ga Agusta don manufar "kasuwanci a cikin duk kafofin watsa labaru da aka sani kuma a nan gaba na samfurori da ayyuka na Barack Obama."
"Na ji cewa ya kamata in yi wannan littafi," in ji Jacobs, wanda ya halarci Punahou kuma ya san abokin gidan Obama na Amurka Neil Abercrombie shekaru da yawa.
"Obamaland," wanda ke gudanar da kasuwancin gaggauwa a shagunan sayar da littattafai na tsibiri, ya haɗa da taswirorin da ke ɗauke da ƙananan mazugi masu ƙididdiga na ƙanƙara. Wani rakiyar "O-zone Key" yana ba da cikakkun bayanai (misali: "A'a. 93. Gidan Zoo na Honolulu. Ya ɗauki iyali don ganin sababbin tigers").
Littafin Jacobs ya fi natsuwa fiye da labari, an tattara shi daga bayanan da ake samu a Intanet, da hotuna da sauran hotuna da abokansa da abokan dangin Obama suka bayar.
Peter Cannon, shugaban kasa kuma mai mallakar albarkatun Hawaii, yana da fa'ida wajen yin taswirar Obama na kansa: Ya kasance cikin kasuwancin yin da siyar da Hawaiiana - katunan wasiƙa, kalandar tide, decals, littattafai - tun 1972.
Cannon ya yi aiki na tsawon shekaru tare da Frank Nielsen (www.francomaps.com) na Corona, Calif., Don samar da taswirar yawon shakatawa da nutsewa na Hawaii da sauran wuraren yawon bude ido.
Obama's Oahu, taswirar da ba ta da ruwa ($ 6 dillali don nau'in nadawa, $ 10 don lanƙwasa) yana sanya mashahuriyar taswirar Oahu a gefe ɗaya da taswirar yaran Honolulu na birni na Obama a ɗayan. (Misali: Filin Wasan Wasan Paki kusa da Waikiki. "Ya haɓaka ƙwarewarsa a cikin wasannin karɓe a kotunan waje a nan....").
Cannon ya ce "An amince da yawon shakatawa na Obama a matsayin wata hanya ta kawo masu yawon bude ido zuwa jihar," in ji Cannon. "Little George Washington ya yanke itacen ceri, Abe Lincoln ya yi karatu a cikin katako ta hanyar kyandir, kuma Barry Obama ya tafi Punahou."
Oahu na Obama yana cikin shaguna 100 a duk fadin jihar.
Cannon ya ce "Ba ni da taswira da aka tashi kamar wannan. "Na sami sha'awa daga Norway, Japan."
Aesthetics kalubale ne
Duk da cewa sha'awar ta yi yawa a watannin da ke gabatowar zaɓe da rantsar da shi, akwai wasu alamu da ke nuna cewa Obama-mania a tsibiran ya ɗan yi sanyi.
"Mun sami buƙatu masu yawa don yawon buɗe ido lokacin da Obama ke nan hutu a bara, amma muna samun buƙatu ɗaya kawai a mako guda yanzu, idan haka ne," in ji Frank Hernandez, ma'aikaci a otal ɗin Halekulani da ke Waikiki.
Halekulani yana aiki tare da yawon shakatawa na Polynesian Adventure Tours, wanda ke ba da balaguron balaguron balaguron kan layi akan $36.76 (sau da $39) a wannan makon.
"Muna samun ƙarin tambayoyi game da balaguron 'Batattu'. Ina tsammanin kyawawan dabi'un Hawaii ne - ganin Punahou da gaske baya kwatanta da Tekun Arewa," in ji Hernandez.
Hakika, kyawawan ɗabi'ar da'irar Makiki, inda Obama ya haife shi, ya rayu kuma ya yi karatu, kusan kusan birane ne kuma galibi ba a san shi ba. Kalubalen da ke tattare da yin balaguro mai jan hankali wanda ya dauki fiye da mintuna 10 yana bayyana cikin sauri idan aka yi la’akari da cewa abubuwan da suka fi daukar hankali sun hada da Baskin-Robbins inda Obama ya yi aiki a takaice tun yana matashi da kantin Checker Auto Parts wanda a da ya zama gidan wasan kwaikwayo inda Obama zai iya ko zai iya. Ba a taba ganin "Star Wars" a 1977 ba.
A tsakiyar kowace rangadi akwai fuskar siminti mai launin ruwan kasa na Punahou Circle Apartments a 1617 S. Beretania St. inda Obama ya zauna tare da kakanninsa, Stanley da Madelyn Dunham, daga 1971 zuwa 1979 a cikin wani yunƙuri, haya mai dakuna biyu.
Obama ya je wurin ne daf da zaben don ziyartar kakarsa da ke fama da rashin lafiya. Ta rasu ranar 3 ga watan Nuwamba.
"Yanzu ya fi shuru," in ji Pete Jones, manajan ginin, wanda ya ce babban gaggawar ya zo a daidai lokacin ziyarar.
"Ya kasance kamar Grand Central Station a lokacin. Amma zan ce muna samun mutane suna zuwa watakila kusan sau hudu a mako,” inji shi. “Akwai motocin bas ko motocin da ke wucewa, suma. Ba kasafai suke tsayawa ba.”
An bukaci jihar da ta kara inganta
Cannon da sauransu sun yi imanin cewa jihar ta rasa damar da za ta bunkasa harkokin yawon bude ido da ke da alaka da Obama a Hawaii, kamar yadda Chicago, mahaifar Obama a halin yanzu ta yi.
Cannon ya ce "Hukumar yawon bude ido ta Hawai] da kuma masu iko da su, ba su yi wani kyakkyawan aiki ba," in ji Cannon.
Rob Kay, marubuci na gida kuma marubucin Obamasneighborhood.com, cikakken gidan yanar gizon yanar gizon da ke nuna tarihin Obama a Hawaii, yana ba'a game da kafa Hukumar Kula da Balaguro ta Obama.
Mafi mahimmanci, Kay ya ce yana fatan jami'an birni da na jihohi za su gane abubuwan da ke cikin dogon lokaci na shugabancin Obama.
"Daga karshe - kuma a fili jihar ta riga ta fara aiki a kan wannan - ya kamata mu yi magana game da kara alamomin tarihi, saboda a fili wannan wata yarjejeniya ce ta tarihi," in ji Kay. "Ka sanya shi mai salo, ba kitschy ba, ba kamar waɗannan labarun tare da gewgaws na Obama na yau da kullun ba. Me ya sa? Chicago ta yi tsalle a kan wannan, kuma da gaske ba mu samu ba. "
Kay ya daɗa wani tunani: “Hawai kuma ya kamata ya yi la’akari da cewa za a sami ɗakin karatu na Obama a wani lokaci. Ina hakan zai kasance? Ya kamata birnin da jihar su yi tunani a kan haka, su ma, watakila su ba da wani yanki na fili a Kakaako. Idan ba wani abu ba, zai zama babban abin talla don samun labaran kasa."
