Posted at 4:36 p.m., Monday, July 31, 2006
Visitor arrivals up 2.9% in June; Japanese down 13.4%
Lynda Arakawa
Advertiser Staff Writer
Overall visitor arrivals totaled 670,257, up 2.9 percent compared to June last year, according to the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.
Total visitor expenditures grew 8.7 percent to set a June record of nearly $1.1 billion.
The continued tourism boom is largely because of record domestic visitor arrivals. At the same time, Japanese visitor arrivals — which have fallen every month this year — declined 13.4 percent.
