from Pacific Business News
More than 20,000 people, accompanied by friends and relatives, are converging on Hawaii this week for the Honolulu Marathon.
The 33rd annual Honolulu Marathon begins at 5 a.m. Sunday. Runners and walkers can register as late as Saturday. As of Friday morning registration, including thousands of local residents, was at 26,952, the largest field since 2002 and 2,632 more than at this point last year.
Two thirds of this year's registrants, as of Thursday, were coming here, or here already, from Japan. Last year a Hawaii Pacific University study found that the typical Japanese runner brought five other people along on the trip, and spends hundreds of dollars a day.
International arrivals by air rose to 5,368 Tuesday, 5,300 Wednesday, and 7,406 Thursday, as marathon entrants began to arrive in Honolulu. The 5,914 arriving Thursday on flights from Japan was the highest one-day total since the middle of September.
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