Foreign visitor nights decreased by 9% in August 2024
Key Findings
- Some 763,600 foreign visitors completed a trip to Ireland in August 2024, an increase of 3.5% compared with August 2023.
- The largest contingent of visitors (35.7%) came from Great Britain, followed by the United States (18.8%), and then Germany and France both at (7.4%).
- The visitors stayed a total of 6.7 million nights in the country, a decrease of 9.2% when compared with August 2023.
- The visitors’ most frequent reason (48.8%) for travelling to Ireland was for holiday or leisure.
- The visitors spent €1.1 billion in total on their trips, up 10.2% when compared with August 2023.
- The average length of stay for foreign resident overnight visitors was 8.7 nights, down from an average of 9.9 nights in August 2023.
Statistician’s Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (30 September 2024) released Inbound Tourism August 2024.
Commenting on the release, Gregg Patrick, Statistician in the Tourism and Travel Division, said:
“The results show that 763,600 foreign visitors departed Ireland on overseas routes in August 2024, an increase of 3.5% compared with August 2023.
Some 35.7% of the visitors were from Great Britain, 18.8% were from the United States, and 7.4% were from both Germany and France.
Typically, their visit lasted 8.7 nights and the total spent on their trips was up 10.2% to €1,097.6 million in August 2024 when compared with the same month in 2023.
Their most frequent reason for their journey (48.8%) was for holiday or leisure purposes.
More of the visitors stayed in hotels (39.1%) than in any other accommodation type, and the typical cost of their visit was €1,437, which comprised €363 on fares, €70 on prepayments, €437 on accommodation, and €566 on day-to-day expenditure.”
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