Visitors continue to break records in Hawaii

Sunday, 30 Nov, 2005 0

Hawaii continues drawing record numbers of visitors, reports the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

In the latest figures, Hawaii had almost 600,000 visitors for October, a new record.

So far this year, Hawaii’s visitation is up almost 7% over last year.

Hawaii tourism officials reported the “best first ten months result of any year on record.”

Cruise visitors also increased more than 50% in the first ten months of this year, with 247,426 passengers arriving here.

The visitors were aboard 42 out-of-state cruise ships. Two US-flagged ships that home port in Hawaii are the Pride of Aloha and the recently added Pride of America.

Repeat visitors to Hawaii made up more than 54% of the out-of-state cruise visitors.

Report by David Wilkening



 

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