Latest figures from CSO
Foreign visitors increase 8.5% in May 2024
Some 622,300 foreign visitors completed a trip to Ireland in May 2024, an increase of 8.5% compared with May 2023.
The largest contingent of visitors (34.9%) came from Great Britain, followed by the United States (20.2%), and then Germany (7.4%).
The visitors stayed a total of 4,462,100 nights in the country, marginally less (-0.3%) than May 2023.
The visitors’ most frequent reason (45.1%) for travelling to Ireland was for holiday or leisure.
The visitors spent �810.6 million in total on their trips, a rise of 29.0% when compared with May 2023.
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