Weekend arrivals: 55,455
Weekend arrivals: 55,455 - 2004-08-03 - Pacific Business News (Honolulu)
Weekend arrivals: 55,455
Howard Dicus
The state visitor arrival counting mechanism finds Hawaii welcomed more than 42,000 domestic visitors on Saturday and Sunday and more than 13,000 international visitors.
That was nearly 4,000 more visitors than the commensurate weekend last year, according to daily figures posted by the state Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism through Monday night.
All the metrics in all the operating counties showed year-to-year improvement. Each major island got hundreds more visitors than last year. In percentage terms the increases are especially large on Kauai and the Big Island.
In the following breakdowns, the numbers reflect total arrivals, irrespective of whether those counted are vacationers, business visitors or returning local residents. Arrivals are from Japan are simply arrivals on flights from Japan, and include some local residents returning from visits to Japan rather than visiting Japanese tourists. Most, however, are visitors in the usual sense. The numbers in parenthesis add up arrivals for Aug. 1 and 2 of last year, which were also a Saturday and Sunday.
Domestic:
To Oahu: 26,155 (25,826).
To Maui: 10,216 (9,923).
To Big Island: 3,051 (2,596).
To Kauai: 2,682 (2,241).
Total: 42,104 (40,586).
International:
From Japan: 11,514 (9,518).
From elsewhere: 1,837 (1,648).
Total: 13,351 (11,166).
Grand total: 55,455 (51,752).
The Hawaii Visitors & Convention Center, using a separate calculation that measures arrivals the seven days through July 29, reported Monday that domestic arrivals were up 7 percent, Japanese arrivals were up 30 percent, and overall arrivals were up 11 percent, compared to the commensurate period last year.
Reach Howard Dicus at hdicus@bizjournals.com.
Weekend arrivals: 55,455
Howard Dicus
The state visitor arrival counting mechanism finds Hawaii welcomed more than 42,000 domestic visitors on Saturday and Sunday and more than 13,000 international visitors.
That was nearly 4,000 more visitors than the commensurate weekend last year, according to daily figures posted by the state Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism through Monday night.
All the metrics in all the operating counties showed year-to-year improvement. Each major island got hundreds more visitors than last year. In percentage terms the increases are especially large on Kauai and the Big Island.
In the following breakdowns, the numbers reflect total arrivals, irrespective of whether those counted are vacationers, business visitors or returning local residents. Arrivals are from Japan are simply arrivals on flights from Japan, and include some local residents returning from visits to Japan rather than visiting Japanese tourists. Most, however, are visitors in the usual sense. The numbers in parenthesis add up arrivals for Aug. 1 and 2 of last year, which were also a Saturday and Sunday.
Domestic:
To Oahu: 26,155 (25,826).
To Maui: 10,216 (9,923).
To Big Island: 3,051 (2,596).
To Kauai: 2,682 (2,241).
Total: 42,104 (40,586).
International:
From Japan: 11,514 (9,518).
From elsewhere: 1,837 (1,648).
Total: 13,351 (11,166).
Grand total: 55,455 (51,752).
The Hawaii Visitors & Convention Center, using a separate calculation that measures arrivals the seven days through July 29, reported Monday that domestic arrivals were up 7 percent, Japanese arrivals were up 30 percent, and overall arrivals were up 11 percent, compared to the commensurate period last year.
Reach Howard Dicus at hdicus@bizjournals.com.
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