Year-on-year overall visitor arrivals were up 1.6 percent last month to 586,338, setting a new record for May. Last month’s visitors spent an average of $179 per person per day, $1 more than last year, and visitor days rose 2.7 percent.

Arrivals from the U.S. West were up 3.5 percent, U.S. East 6.8 percent and Canada 8.4 percent. But Japanese tourism continued to fall off with arrivals dropping 10.3 percent.

Hawaii hospitality industry was at  76 percent hotel occupancy for the seven days to June 23. That was well down from 86.3 percent in the same week a year ago, but room rates made up for it with an 11.7 percent year-to-year jump statewide,