Skin diseases in tourists to Hawaii.

This is the first report of travellers' skin diseases from the Hawaiian archipelago. The diagnoses of all tourists who presented to a dermatology practice on Kauai, Hawaii, were recorded over six years. The cutaneous disorders tabulated in visitors differed significantly from those observed in the local population. In visitors, over one-third of the diagnoses were of light-induced disorders. The most common disease observed was the papulovesicular variant of polymorphous light eruption. This report should serve as a guide to the skin diseases that travellers to Hawaii frequently experience.