Hawaii hotel occupancy continues to grow

August 30th, 2010 by Malia Leilani Meenderman

Watching how the local economy is doing reflects strongly on the strength of the housing market, that is why I keep a close eye on the hotel occupancy numbers.  The occupancy increased 4.4% year over year last week.  That is great sign for the Hawaii economy.  As more flights are added more tourists will come and one of our most important industry begins to thrive again.  Honolulu was up almost 5% to 78% from last year.  And all of Oahu was up 3.2% to 85.8%.  Hat tip to Smith Research for the data/