Research & Economic Analysis

2nd Quarter 2026 Report

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The total number of visitor arrivals by air increased 85,695 or 3.6 percent in the first quarter of 2026, compared to the same quarter of 2025 (Table D-2). The total average daily census increased by 2,334 or 1.0 percent in the quarter. In 2025, total visitor arrivals by air decreased 40,163 or 0.4 percent, while the average daily census decreased 1,221 or 0.5 percent from the previous year.

In terms of major market areas, from the first quarter of 2025 to the same period of 2026, arrivals from the U.S. West increased 23,940 or 2.0 percent (Table D-5), arrivals from the U.S. East increased 92,298 or 14.3 percent (Table D-6), and arrivals from Japan increased 12,190 or 7.4 percent (Table D-7). In 2025, arrivals from the U.S. West were up 13,044 or 0.3 percent; arrivals from the U.S. East were up 32,221 or 1.4 percent; and Japanese arrivals were up 23,688 or 3.3 percent from the previous year.

The total average daily visitor census was up 1.0 percent or 2,334 visitors per day in the first quarter of 2026, over the same quarter of 2025 (Table D-8).

Nominal visitor expenditures by air totaled $6,097.62 million in the first quarter of 2026, an increase of $503.7 million or 9.0 percent from the first quarter of 2025 (Table D-11). In 2025, visitor expenditures totaled $21,680.73 million, an increase of $1,192.0 million or 5.8 percent from the previous year.

Total airline capacity, as measured by the number of available seats flown to Hawai’i, increased 5.3 percent or 196,405 seats (Table D-12) in the first quarter of 2026, domestic seats increased 6.8 percent or 175,897 seats (Table D-13), and international seats decreased 0.3 percent or 20,508 seats (Table D-14), compared to the same quarter of 2025. In 2025, the number of total available seats decreased 1.1 percent or 147,865 seats, domestic seats decreased 0.8 percent or 81,288 seats, and international seats decreased 2.5 percent or 66,577 seats from the previous year.

In the first quarter of 2026, the statewide hotel occupancy rate averaged 76.4 percent, 0.5 of a percentage point higher than the same quarter of 2025 (Table D-15). In 2025, the statewide hotel occupancy rate averaged 73.9 percent, 0.5 percentage points lower than the previous year.

 

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

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/.