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The only thing robust about
Hawaii’s spring break tourist season this year are the discounts.
Normally, hunting for a kamaaina special at Hawaii hotels during spring break season is challenging. But this year, the Golden Goose isn’t laying as many eggs.
It’s a sign of the softness that the Kahala Hotel &Resort put out an offer for 40% off its best rate for Hawaii residents through March, and other Hawaii hotels also are heavily recruiting visitors and locals to fill empty rooms.
The daily count of visitors in
Hawaii and their daily spending dropped in February — the
seventh monthly decline in a row since the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires, according to preliminary statistics released Thursday by the Department of Business, Economic Development and tourism.
In February, DBEDT reported that on average, there were 236,008 visitors each day in the Hawaiian Islands, down 3.2% from…
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