Hana Hou! is an American

United States

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 bi-monthly English language inflight magazine

Magazine

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. It is published for Hawaiian Airlines

Hawaiian Airlines

Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. is a major airline of the United States. It is the largest airline based in the State of Hawai'i, and is the 11th largest commercial airline in the country. Based in Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu, the airline operates its main hub at Honolulu International...

 by Honolulu-based Pacific Travelogue Inc., which also publishes Pacifica, a Japanese language

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 inflight magazine for Continental Airlines

Continental Airlines

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Hana Hou! (which means encore!

Encore (concert)

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in the Hawaiian language

Hawaiian language

The Hawaiian language is a Polynesian language that takes its name from Hawaii, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the state of Hawaii...

) includes feature stories

Feature story

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, interview

Interview

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s, travelogue

Travel literature

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s and profiles, and ‘Best of the Islands’ and ‘Native Intelligence’ sections.

The award

Award

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s which the magazine has received include two in 2007 from the Hawaiian chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists

Society of Professional Journalists

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Hana Hou! maintains extensive archives which include back issues going back as far as 2002 (Volume 5) on its website. While complimentary copies are provided on all Hawaiian Airlines flights, the magazine is also marketed at newsstands

Newsagent

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 in Hawaii and by subscription

Subscription business model

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