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DFS Galleria Waikiki is seeing growing numbers of Korean and Chinese shoppers, helping to offset the soft Japanese business |
USA (HAWAII)). After 23 consecutive months of increases, arrivals from Japan dropped -2.9% to 128,363 visitors in July, according to the Hawaii Tourism Authority.
These visitors spent significantly less on a daily basis (-16.5% to US$250 per person), resulting in a -19.1% decline in total Japanese visitor expenditures to U$197.8 million.
More encouragingly, arrivals from “˜Other Asia’ (principally South Korea and China) rose +19.9% year-on-year.
Arrivals (+24.8% to 17,001 visitors) and visitor days (+29.8%) from South Korea were significantly higher compared to July 2012. Korean visitors in July 2013 stayed an average of 7.09 days, compared to 6.82 days a year ago. Arrivals from China declined -10.7% to 10,219 in July.
However, a longer length of stay (6.54 days, from 5.24 days) contributed to an +11.5% growth in visitor days. Supported by new service from Hawaiian Airlines, there were five times more visitors from Taiwan in July compared to a year ago.
Total arrivals of all nationalities, which have shown consecutive growth since September 2011, rose +4.6% to 757,969 visitors. However, these visitors spent less on a daily basis (-3.7% to US$185 per person) and their average length of stay was slightly shorter (9.36 days, from 9.49 days) compared to July 2012.
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In the first seven months of 2013, total visitor expenditures reached US$8.7 billion (+5.7%) and total arrivals rose +5.5% to 4,913,837 visitors.
For the same period, Japanese arrivals rose by +3.8% but their total spending fell by -7.8%. Daily spending by Japanese visitors has been lower in six out of the seven months so far in 2013. A weaker Yen has been a factor in these decreases, the Hawaii Tourism Authority said. For the first seven months of 2013, daily spending on shopping by Japanese visitors declined -18.7% to US$80 per person.
Arrivals from Other Asia rose by +21.8% in the first seven months. The period saw significantly more visitors from South Korea (+20.8%), China (+18.6%) and Taiwan (+95.9%) compared to the same period last year.
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