In April, Kaua‘i received around 16.5 percent of all the state’s visitors. If the island also received that same percentage of visitor spending, that means visitors spent around $124 million here that month. That’s according to statistics provided by leaders
In April, Kaua‘i received around 16.5 percent of all the state’s visitors. If the island also received that same percentage of visitor spending, that means visitors spent around $124 million here that month.
That’s according to statistics provided by leaders of the state Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism.
The $752.4 million spent by visitors to Hawai‘i who arrived on jets in April was up over 19 percent compared to visitor expenditures tracked in April of last year, according to a DBEDT spokesman.
The increase was due to growth of 15 percent in total visitors days in April of this year compared to April of last year, which was a result of slightly higher visitor arrivals and a longer average length of stay (9.84 days, up over 14 percent).
There were 479,371 visitors to the state in April, and 78,823 Kaua‘i visitors.
Average per-person-per-day (pppd) spending grew from $154 in April of last year to $160 in April of this year.
“We are very encouraged by the continued growth in visitor spending in the islands,” said Theodore E. “Ted” Liu, DBEDT director.
“It is another positive sign that reaffirms our place as a premiere visitor destination,” he added.
For the first four months of this year, total visitor expenditures were $3.3 billion, some 10.6 percent higher than the same period last year.
By their sheer numbers, visitors from Mainland states west of the Rockies spent the most money, $348.4 million in the state in April of this year, a jump of over 40 percent compared to the same month in 2002.
