In today's Honolulu Advertiser, the headline reads "Tourism Remaining Steady."

  The number of visitors traveling to Hawai'i last year was little changed from the previous year's record, and local tourism officials said they expect to see only modest growth in 2007. Visitor arrivals totaled 7.4 million last year, which was virtually unchanged from the record visitor traffic in 2005, the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism said Friday…

Some good news

Despite the slowdown in growth of arrivals, visitors continued to spend at a record pace. DEBDT said visitor spending last year rose 2.9 percent to a record $12 billion.

Later in the article it talks briefly about the Valley Isle.

The number of arrivals on Maui increased 4.8 percent to 2.4 million.

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