Research & Economic Analysis

3rd Quarter 2024 Report

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International visitor arrivals increased while domestic visitor arrivals decreased in the second quarter of 2024.

The total number of visitor arrivals by air decreased 131,452 or 5.3 percent in the second quarter of 2024, compared to the second quarter of 2023 (Table D-2). The total average daily census decreased by 17,188 or 7.1 percent in the quarter. In the first half of 2024, total visitor arrivals by air decreased 191,903 or 3.9 percent, while the average daily census decreased 16,434 or 6.7 percent from the previous year.

In the second quarter of 2024, total visitor arrivals on domestic flights decreased 155,228 or 7.2 percent compared to the same quarter of 2023 (Table D-3). In the first half of 2024, domestic arrivals were down 287,823 or 6.9 percent from the previous year.

Arrivals on international flights increased 23,776 or 7.3 percent in the second quarter of 2024 compared to the second quarter of 2023 (Table D-4). In the first half of 2024, international arrivals increased 95,920 or 13.3 percent from the previous year.

In terms of major market areas, from the second quarter of 2024 to the same period of 2023, arrivals from the U.S. West decreased 111,577 or 8.1 percent (Table D-5), arrivals from the U.S. East decreased 39,054 or 6.0 percent (Table D-6), and arrivals from Japan increased 41,001 or 36.0 percent (Table D-7). In the first half of 2024, arrivals from the U.S. West were down 186,560 or 7.1 percent; arrivals from the U.S. East were down 94,708 or 7.2 percent; and Japanese arrivals were up 121,738 or 59.4 percent from the previous year.

The total average daily visitor census was down 7.1 percent or 17,188 visitors per day in the second quarter of 2024, over the same quarter of 2023 (Table D-8). The domestic average daily census decreased 7.3 percent or 15,337 visitors per day (Table D-9) and the international average daily census decreased 5.7 percent or 1,850 visitors per day (Table D-10). In the first half of 2024, the domestic average daily census decreased 16,309 or 7.9 percent; and the international average daily census decreased by 125 or 0.3 percent from the previous year.

Nominal visitor expenditures by air totaled $5,019.8 million in the second quarter of 2024, a decrease of $395.8 million or 7.3 percent from the second quarter of 2023 (Table D-11). In the first half of 2024, visitor expenditures totaled $10,219.8 million, a decrease of $565.7 million or 5.2 percent from the same period of the previous year.

Total airline capacity, as measured by the number of available seats flown to Hawaii, increased 2.4 percent or by 78,684 seats (Table D-12) in the second quarter of 2024, domestic seats decreased 0.3 percent or 8,326 seats (Table D-13), and international seats increased 16.1 percent or 87,010 seats (Table D-14), compared to the same quarter of 2023. In the first half of 2024, the number of total available seats increased 0.3 percent or 19,971 seats, domestic seats decreased 3.6 percent or 194,559 seats, and international seats increased 18.2 percent or 214,530 seats from the same period of the previous year.

In the second quarter of 2024, the statewide hotel occupancy rate averaged 73.0 percent, 1.2 percentage points lower than that of the same quarter of 2023 (Table D-15). In the first half of 2024, the statewide hotel occupancy rate averaged 74.7 percent, 0.1 percentage point higher than the occupancy rate for the same period of the previous year.

Readers interested in visitor statistics on a monthly basis can find them on the DBEDT website at: https://dbedt.hawaii.gov/visitor/tourism/ and those interested in daily passenger arrival data may access them at: https://dbedt.hawaii.gov/visitor/daily-passenger-counts/.