A couple of years ago when we were in the Great Recession, Hawaii hotels were really struggling to f

A couple of years ago when we were in the Great Recession, Hawaii hotels were really struggling to fill up there rooms and it was not only bad for the Hawaii tourism market but the overall local economy as so many people rely on the tourism for their livelihood. Well fast forward it a couple of years and now the Hawaii travel industry is booming. With airlines like Hawaiian adding news flights of service to Hawaii and also new airlines like Allegiant and Alaska Airlines entering the market, we are seeing more people traveling to Hawaii which means more hotel rooms are getting booked.
With the increase in flights to Hawaii I ve been interested to see what the current hotel occupancy rates were looking like and just this past week we ve begun to see some of the numbers. Hospitality Advisors is reporting that the state wide occupancy rate is around 79.5%. These numbers are pretty good and were expected to be high as it is the Summer period, which is the most busiest time, and also there have been a large amount of RIMPAC guests staying in the hotels. For a breakdown by island, the occupancy rate on Oahu was around 88%, on Maui 71.5% and on Kauai 79.1%. From these numbers you can see that Oahu had the highest number due to a majority of the people wanting to stay in Waikiki and on Maui it was lower as the hotel rates are usually much higher per night as compared to Oahu.