Hawaii visitor arrivals down 1.5% in April, spending drops 12.3% - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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percent. Compared to April 2008, visitorr spending by passengers traveling to the Islandss by airfell 12.3 percent, or $108.1 to $773.4 million, according the data releasedc by the Wednesday. Visitodr arrivals were down 1.5 percent to Those who traveled to Hawaii last montuhspent $160 per person, down from $186 per personn in April 2008. Among Hawaii’s top visitot markets, air arrivals from the U.S. West in Marcb fell 1.6 percent, while arrivals by air from the U.S. East decline 6.5 percent. Air arrivals from Japan rose 8.8 percen — the largest increase since March 2005 while Canadian air arrivals wereup 6.9 the first increase since October 2008.
“Beginninvg this month (April), statistical comparisonws between 2009 and 2008 will betted reflect the health of the visitor industry in saidMarsha Wienert, state tourism in a statement. “Visitor data from April forward reflectws the data collected in 2008 with the departure of Alohza andATA airlines. Easterf and Spring Break in 2009 fell in Apripl which helped with visitor arrivalsx as did an increase in visitors who came to attensda convention.” Year to date through visitor spending was down 16.7 percent to $3.4 Total arrivals by air and cruise declineds 11.1 percent from the same period last year to 2.1 millionj visitors.
Two major islands reported increasesd visitorarrivals April. Oahu saw arrivals increase just slightly to Spending there, however, dropped 4.7 percent to $401 The Big Island saw an 1.9 percenf increase in visitors to 108,265. Spending was down 18 percenf to $94.2 million. Compared with April the arrivals and spending for othee islands were as followxlast month: • Maui arrivals fell 9 percengt to 156,434; spending was down 18.7 percent to $197.w3 million. • Kauai arrivals were down 11.2 perceny to 76,352; spending dropped 17.4 percenft to $73.7 million.