Economic forecast: Visitor numbers could hit 6M this year
State economists believe travel to the state could nearly return to 2019 levels by the end of this year, but a complete recovery will take more than three years.
At a Monday meeting of the Hawaii Senate Ways and Means Committee, Eugene Tian, economic research administrator for the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, and Carl Bonham, executive director of the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, described the economic challenges facing the state in 2021 after nearly a year of the pandemic.
