Weekend visitors: 38,000

Weekend visitors: 38,000
- 2004-04-27 - Pacific Business News (Honolulu)
Howard Dicus

Hawaii welcomed more than 38,000 visitors this past weekend, compared to 34,000 on the nearest weekend of last year, according to the state's airport counts. All four operating counties saw increases.

Japanese arrivals are still below normal. Hawaii typically welcomes 4,000 a day on flights from Japan. But that level has been reached on only four days so far this month. There were 3,424 arrivals on flights from Japan on Saturday and 3,121 on Sunday.

Mainland arrivals are up across the board. Kauai domestic arrivals have topped 1,000 on six days this month compared to just twice in the same period last year. Big Island domestic arrivals have topped 1,000 on 20 days, compared to eight days last year. Maui and Oahu arrivals have also been improved.

In the following counts, the arrival figures for Saturday and Sunday are added together, with year-before numbers in parenthesis. All figures except the Japanese visitor count are for mainland flight arrivals.

Statewide: 31,478 (27,543.)
Honolulu: 19,424 (18,050.)
Maui: 7,757 (5,973.)
Big Island: 2,449 (2,016.)
Kauai: 1,848 (1,504.)
Japan arrivals statewide: 6,545 (6,563.)
Other international arrivals statewide: 1,471 (1,305.)
Reach Howard Dicus at hdicus@bizjournals.com.