Visitor counts to Hawaii showed continued recovery in May

HONOLULU — Some 776,375 visitors came to Hawaii in May 2022, 91.6% of the total number of visitors to the state in May 2019, according to preliminary statistics released Thursday by the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.
May’s pandemic recovery rate is lower than that of April 2022, during which visitor totals represented 96.3% of April 2019 totals. However, it is the second highest monthly recovery rate since March 2020.