Visitor arrivals up 6.1% in September, spending up 15.6%

Dave and Jeannine Funk of Reno, Nev., bought a time share at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort in 2010. “We’d been coming to Hawaii for 40 years, so buying a time share just made sense,” Jeannine Funk said. Hawaii’s visitor industry moved into September with small losses in tourist traffic from the U.S. East and Canada the only signs of the traditional fall slowdown.