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| Above, a view of the Honolulu/Waikiki coastline. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The pent-up demand for travel has taken hold and the state of Hawaii is seeing a surge in tourism numbers since restrictions have loosened up.
Actually, the numbers are more than what they expected.
Travel Weekly reported:
HONOLULU (AP) -- Tourists are traveling to Hawaii in larger numbers than officials anticipated, and many are wandering around Waikiki without masks, despite a statewide mandate to wear them in public.
Hawaii's "Safe Travels" program reported that about 28,000 people flew into and throughout the islands on Saturday, the highest number of travelers in a single day since the pandemic began, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Monday
Before the pandemic, Hawaii had about 30,000 arrivals daily. When quarantine rules were put in place early in the pandemic, arrivals plummeted and the state's tourism-dependent economy tanked.
In October, state officials launched a pre-travel testing program that allowed visitors to sidestep quarantine rules. But travel remained sluggish until the second week in March, when spring break tourists started arriving in the islands.
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