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| Above, a Waikiki shopping mall. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
With increased numbers of travelers along with souvenir and other shops everywhere one turns while in Hawaii, it is no surprise that the "Aloha State" is raking in the bucks.
According to TravelPulse:
Hawaii might have been one of the most cautious states when it came to allowing visitors during the last 15 months of the pandemic, but it knew this day – or month – would come.
Tourism is back on the islands, for sure.
According to preliminary statistics released by the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA), a total of 629,681 visitors arrived by air service to the Hawaiian Islands in May 2021, mainly from the U.S. West and U.S. East. In comparison, only 9,116 visitors arrived by air in May 2020 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic and Hawaii’s quarantine requirement for travelers.
But the real eye-opening number to emerge from the month of May was this – visitors spent a whopping $1.1 billion on the islands during that time.
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