HONOLULU – The Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) released Wednesday the 2017 Visitor Plant Inventory, which showed that visitor accommodation units statewide increased to 80,336 units.
HONOLULU – The Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) released Wednesday the 2017 Visitor Plant Inventory, which showed that visitor accommodation units statewide increased to 80,336 units.
That signifies a rise of 1.6 percent year-over-year, the largest total ever recorded for the State of Hawaii.
The annual census of existing and planned visitor accommodation units statewide showed growth in three of the five categories reported, with increases in hotel rooms (1.2 percent to 44,431), timeshare units (3.2 percent to 11,062) and vacation rental units (3.9 percent to 12,659) compared to 2016.
Condo hotel units declined slightly (-0.4 percent to 10,875) and there was a decrease in units provided by apartments, bed and breakfasts, hostels and other miscellaneous accommodations (3.5 percent to 1,309).
Most of Hawaii’s visitor accommodation units in 2017 were comprised of hotel rooms (55.3 percent), followed by vacation rentals (15.8 percent), timeshare units (13.8 percent) and condo hotels (13.5 percent), with the balance (1.6 percent) from a combination of other providers, such as apartments, bed & breakfasts and hostels.
