Hawaii hotel occupancy is still below 2006 numbers, while room rates continue to exceed last year’s.
For the week of July 22-28, statewide hotel occupancy is down 7 percentage points to 79.6 percent. On Oahu, the occupancy rate is down 13 percentage points to 78.6 percent, according to the latest report from Hospitality Advisors and Smith Travel Research.
Things are better on Kauai, however, which filled 87.3 percent of its rooms, the highest occupancy in the state. That represented an increase of 12.6 percentage points from the same period last year. Read more