Tourism in Hawaii reaching record levels

Saturday, 27 Sep, 2005 0

Both the number of visitors and spending hit record levels in Hawaii during the month of August.

Visitor spending was up by 9.5% from August of last year to more than $1 billion, outpacing increases in both arrivals and visitor days.

Visitor days for August rose by 7.7% from the same month a year earlier, according to the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

Meanwhile, for the first eight months of the year, total arrivals set a record of more than 5 million visitors.

Spending was also up.

Report by David Wilkening



 

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