Research & Economic Analysis

4th Quarter 2024 Report

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Domestic and international visitor arrivals increased in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the same quarter of 2023.

The total number of visitor arrivals by air increased 88,324 or 3.8 percent in the third quarter of 2024, compared to the third quarter of 2023 (Table D-2). The total average daily census increased by 1,449 or 0.6 percent in the quarter. In the first three quarters of 2024, total visitor arrivals by air decreased 103,579 or 1.4 percent, while the average daily census decreased 10,404 or 4.4 percent from the same period of the previous year.

In the third quarter of 2024, total visitor arrivals on domestic flights increased 74,521 or 3.8 percent compared to the same quarter of 2023 (Table D-3). In the first three quarters of 2024, domestic arrivals were down 213,302 or 3.5 percent from the same period of the previous year.

Arrivals on international flights increased 13,803 or 3.6 percent in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the third quarter of 2023 (Table D-4). In the first three quarters of 2024, international arrivals increased 109,723 or 9.9 percent from the same period of the previous year.

In terms of major market areas, from the third quarter of 2024 to the same period of 2023, arrivals from the U.S. West increased 74,372 or 6.1 percent (Table D-5), arrivals from the U.S. East decreased 2,266 or 0.4 percent (Table D-6), and arrivals from Japan increased 3,481 or 1.8 percent (Table D-7). In the first three quarters of 2024, arrivals from the U.S. West were down 112,188 or 2.9 percent; arrivals from the U.S. East were down 96,974 or 5.1 percent; and Japanese arrivals were up 125,218 or 31.6 percent from the previous year.

The total average daily visitor census was up 0.6 percent or 1,449 visitors per day in the third quarter of 2024, over the same quarter of 2023 (Table D-8).

The domestic average daily census decreased 1.1 percent or 2,049 visitors per day (Table D-9) and the international average daily census decreased 1.7 percent or 601 visitors per day (Table D-10). In the first three quarters of 2024, the domestic average daily census decreased 10,123 or 5.0 percent; and the international average daily census decreased by 281 or 0.8 percent from the same period of the previous year.

Nominal visitor expenditures by air totaled $5,229.0 million in the third quarter of 2024, an increase of $288.6 million or 5.8 percent from the third quarter of 2023 (Table D-11). In the first three quarters of 2024, visitor expenditures totaled $15,448.8 million, a decrease of $277.1 million or 1.8 percent from the same period of the previous year.

Total airline capacity, as measured by the number of available seats flown to Hawaii, increased 1.0 percent or by 33,623 seats (Table D-12) in the third quarter of 2024, domestic seats decreased 0.4 percent or 11,759 seats (Table D-13), and international seats increased 8.0 percent or 45,382 seats (Table D-14), compared to the same quarter of 2023. In the first three quarters of 2024, the number of total available seats increased 0.5 percent or 53,594 seats, domestic seats decreased 2.5 percent or 206,318 seats, and international seats increased 14.9 percent or 259,912 seats from the same period of the previous year.

In the third quarter of 2024, the statewide hotel occupancy rate averaged 73.6 percent, 1.9 percentage points lower than that of the same quarter of 2023 (Table D-15). In the first three quarters of 2024, the statewide hotel occupancy rate averaged 74.4 percent, 0.6 percentage point lower 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/.