VISITOR DATA

Visitor Expend. ($ mil.)              $7,376.5         $7,198.4          2.5%

Visitor Arrivals                         4,094,951        4,097,605        -0.1%

AIRLIFT OUTLOOK

Aug - Oct                                         2014               2013      %Chng

TOTAL SEATS:                           2,757,424         2,621,661        5.2%

Domestic:                                  1,889,611         1,719,915        9.9%

International:                               867,813           901,746       -3.8%

The full report is available here.

Aloha,

While most of the Hawaiian Islands were spared during Hurricane Iselle, we know that those on Hawaii Island, particularly in the Puna area, are still recovering and in need of basic necessities. We send our thoughts and aloha to all of them and encourage anyone who would like to assist, to donate to the Hawaii Red Cross.

On behalf of the HTA, I would like to extend a sincere mahalo to our partners in the visitor industry, elected officials, government agencies and the media for coming together to keep our community and visitors aware and informed during Iselle. It was through your collective efforts that we were able to provide regular updates for the duration of the storm.

The HTA's role during times of crisis is to act as a liaison between government agencies and Hawaii's visitor industry to provide information that is pertinent to visitors. We encourage you to share our email updates with your colleagues and have them to sign up on our website to receive them directly.

Mahalo,

Mike McCartney, HTA president and CEO

In 2013, Hawaii's cruise industry contributed $51.8 million toward the state's economy with 287,681 visitors. For the first half of 2014, a total of 134,851 cruise visitors traveled to the Hawaiian Islands, 15 percent less than the same period last year due to seven fewer cruise ships, year-to-date through June.

The HTA is looking to strengthen Hawaii's cruise market through the development and implementation of a single maritime scheduling software for the state of Hawaii that will be built by its new contractor, The Mariner Group. This software, which is anticipated to be completed and executed by mid-2015, will help integrate the Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) ports into one system in order to ease vessel scheduling and use of dock space. Read more.