Visitor arrivals throughout Hawaiian Islands are down, state officials report

Visitor arrivals to the Hawaiian Islands dropped in April, according to preliminary statistics from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

Decreased arrivals have been an ongoing trend since the first of the year.

A total of 3,145,047 visitors arrived in the first four months of 2024, which was a 3.9% drop from 3,273,869 visitors in the first four months of 2023, according to the state department. Total arrivals decreased 6.9% when compared to 3,376,675 visitors in the first four months of 2019.

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The average length of stay by all visitors in April 2024 was 8.27 days, compared to 8.58 days in April 2023 and 8.25 days in April 2019. The statewide average daily census was 207,827 visitors in April 2024, compared to 236,661 visitors in April 2023 and 233,616 visitors in April 2019.

Hawai‘i Island is in line with this trend with 133,200 visitors recorded in April 2024, compared to 138,448 visitors in April 2023. It is a 2.3% increase from 130,224 visitors recorded in April 2019.

The average daily census on Hawai‘i Island was 32,942 visitors in April 2024, compared to 34,033 visitors in April 2023.

In the first four months of 2024, there were 575,821 visitors to Hawai‘i Island, compared to 585,441 visitors in the first four months of 2023 and 577,101 visitors in the first four months of 2019.

There were 753,551 visitors to the Hawaiian Islands in April 2024, down 8.9% from the same month last year. Total visitor spending measured in nominal dollars was $1.51 billion, which was a 12.6% drop from April 2023.

Visitor spending is also down.

In the first four months of 2024, total visitor spending was $6.73 billion, down from $7.09 billion in the first four months of 2023, but higher than $5.81 billion in the first four months of 2019.

On Hawai‘i Island, visitor spending was up. In April, visitors spent $254.1 million, a 16.8% increase from April 2023 where $217.5 was spent.

For the first four months of 2024, total visitor spending was $1.11 billion, compared to $958.6 million in the first four months of 2023 and $795.5 million in the first four months of 2019.