Honeymoons, conventions brought visitors to Hawaii in April - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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A total of 22,248 visitors came to attend a conventiojin April, up 9.8 percent from last according to data released Wednesday by the . Most of the growtbh in convention visitors wasfrom U.S. West (up 7.1 and Canada (up 120.6 Two conventions last month contributed to theincreaseed visitors: the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine which drew 5,675 attendees, and the American Academyu of Cosmetic Dentistry convention, with 3,467 attendees. The year-to-datee number of visitors attendinga however, is down 15.9 percenf from 109,257 in 2008 to 91,843 in 2009. Visitors honeymooninvg in Hawaii were up nearly 2 percent forthe month.
Therw were 38,518 visitors on their honeymoonbin April, up 1.9 percenft from 37,796 visitors duringy April 2008. Of those 20,679 were from Japan, up 14.2 percentf from April 2008. Year-to-date, the numbefr of visitors honeymooning in Hawaii isup 5.6 percent from 118,535 in 2008 to 125,142 in 2009.