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It was the first time in years Kapahua had seen the popular tourist beach empty.
But a few weeks ago, when he showed up at Waikiki, it was too crowded to surf. The 23-year-old said it was maddening how many people were there with most disregarding Hawaii s public safety restrictions. It looked like it did before the pandemic, the 23-year-old graduate student and community organizer told Insider. But I could count the number of masks on one hand.
Kapahua s experience of tourists on the shores of Waikiki Beach represents the larger surge of tourists entering Hawaii.
From April 3 to April 8, more than 23,000 people arrived in Hawaii every day, according to state travel data. Arrivals peaked on Saturday, April 3, when nearly 29,000 people stepped foot onto one of Hawaii s eight major islands, approaching pre-pandemic tourism levels.
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