Hawaii Visitor Arrivals Dropped 99.5% In April

Above, the Kona International Airport on the Big Island. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a major toll on Hawaii travel.

The figures are now out on how many visitor arrivals to Hawaii there were in April. They are not good.

According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser:

Only 4,564 visitors traveled to Hawaii last month, according to preliminary statistics released today by the Hawaii Tourism Authority. 

That’s a 99.5% drop compared to a year ago when 856,250 visitors came by air and cruise ship. HTA did not provide a spending estimate for this April’s visitors, but it would have been minuscule compared to the $1.3 billion that visitors to Hawaii spent in April 2019. 

The decline was due to COVID-19 fears and tourism lockdowns.

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