Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism

Hawaii State Energy Office — The Hawaii State Energy Office and its partners have submitted a full application to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Hydrogen Hub programs.

Defense-related expenditures bring in approximately $2.5 billion to Hawaii's economy. This spending is expected to increase during the upcoming years, highlighted by the recent award of a $2.8 billion Navy contract for work at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.

According to preliminary visitor statistics released by DBEDT, a total of 753,750 visitors arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in February 2023, an increase of 19.5 percent from February 2022.

More than 200 attendees gathered at the Hawaii Convention Center for DBEDT's first-ever Made in Hawaii Branding Workshop today.

Two Hawaii co-writers from Creative Lab’s Music Immersive February 2023 cohort have landed an original music sync licensing placement in the ABC series “The Company You Keep.”

DBEDT today announced that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for February was 3.6 percent, the same as in January.

DBEDT announced today that the first-ever Made in Hawaii Branding Workshop will be held at the Hawaii Convention Center on Wednesday, March 29.

State Broadband Coordinator of the Hawaii Broadband and Digital Equity Office, Burt Lum, was recently recognized with two awards for his important work championing digital equity in the state of Hawaii.

DBEDT today announced that the monthly labor statistics including labor force, employment, unemployment, and unemployment rate have been revised from January 2010 to December 2022 and job count by industry has been revised from January 1990 to December 2022 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

DBEDT released its first quarter 2023 Statistical and Economic Report today. DBEDT kept its economic growth projections for 2023 and 2024 at 1.7 percent and 2.1 percent, respectively, unchanged from the projections made in the previous quarter.