Visitors Up, Spending Down

Aloha Kakou:

July was the first month since February 2008, where the number of visitors increased year over year. For Maui, July's increase was .7% That's the good news.

The bad news is that visitor spending for lodging, food and beverage and entertainment fell by 10% compared to last July.

Please see comments in the Honolulu Advertiser by David Carey, Outrigger Enterprises' president and CEO. "It feels like we bottomed. But it doesn't suggest that we've turned it up yet," he said.


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