The Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism released preliminary statistics for October, which counted 774,617 visitor arrivals in the Islands.
“The October 2024 visitor statistics are encouraging,” James Kunane Tokioka, the department’s director, said in a statement. “With a recovery rate of 97.3 percent from prepandemic October 2019, this is the highest recovery rate since April 2023 (not counting February 2024, which had a leap day).”
Tokioka added that the October arrivals number was the second highest for the month on record, after October 2019 with 796,191 arrivals.
By island, Oahu had 455,291 visitors in October, a 1.7% year-over-year increase; Kauai had 106,196 visitors, down 3.8% compared to last year. And the Big Island of Hawaii had 132,392 visitors in October, a decrease of 1.7% year over year.
Maui had 180,609 visitors in October, which is better than last October’s 134,498 (two months after the Lahaina fire). But it’s still well below October 2019 (-24.1%), when the island welcomed 238,043 visitors.
