{"id":98881224,"date":"2011-02-25T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/hawaii-experiences-20-percent-jump-in-visitor-spending-for-january\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T04:34:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T08:34:09","slug":"hawaii-experiences-20-percent-jump-in-visitor-spending-for-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/hawaii-experiences-20-percent-jump-in-visitor-spending-for-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Experiences 20 Percent Jump in Visitor Spending for January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii saw a 20 percent increase in visitor spending for the month of January as the tourism industry continues to show signs of recovery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The island state was helped by the return of the NFL Pro Bowl, which temporarily moved to Miami in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Hawaii welcomed 595,487 visitors for the month, a 12.2 percent increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While tourism officials were pleased with the numbers, they cautioned that the economic recovery remains tenuous at best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sustained momentum is encouraging, but there continues to be many factors that can disrupt recovery of Hawaii&#8217;s tourism economy,&#8221; said Mike McCartney, president and CEO of the state tourism agency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned rising fuel costs and labor disputes as potential setbacks for the state\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-02-25\/hawaii-visitor-spending-jumps-20-percent.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Bloomberg <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii saw a 20 percent increase in visitor spending for the month of January as the tourism industry continues to show signs of recovery. &nbsp; The island state was helped by the return of the NFL Pro Bowl, which temporarily moved to Miami in 2010. &nbsp; Overall, Hawaii welcomed 595,487 visitors for the month, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897363,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881224\/revisions\/98897363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}