Preliminary statistics released Thursday showed visitor arrivals to Maui were up 1.5 percent in June, but spending for the month was down 10.1 percent. For the first six months of 2007, arrivals were up 1.6 percent to 1.2 million, but spending was down 3.4 percent to $1.68 billion, compared to $1.74 billion in 2006.

According to the Department of Business and Economic Development. These are mediocre results to be sure. We suspect though that the ramp up in the Lanai numbers since the Four Seasons took over two hotels on that island have something to do with this.