CSO – Hospitality: A Value Chain Analysis 2021

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Total supply of Hospitality services to the Irish economy was more than €10 billion in 2021

Key Findings

  • Total supply of goods and services in the Hospitality sector was €10.5 billion in 2021, with Food & Beverage Services accounting for 74% or €7.7 billion of this.
  • Compensation of employees in the Hospitality Value Chain was €3.4 billion in 2021.
  • The highest proportion of workers in the Hospitality sector were aged between 18 and 25 and were more likely to be women.
  • Nearly four times as many men occupied the roles of chef and bartender as women, while four times as many women worked as waiters compared with men.
  • Irish residents spent €1.4 billion on Hospitality services abroad in 2021 (imports of Hospitality services).
  • Households consumed 72% of all Hospitality services produced in 2021, tourists consumed 16%, and businesses 12%

Statistician’s Comment

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (10 October 2024) released Hospitality Value Chain Analysis 2021.

Commenting on the release, Aoife Crowe, Statistician in the National Accounts Analysis and Globalisation Division, said:

“The target year for the Hospitality Value Chain is 2021, but the release makes use of more timely data sources relating to the sector also. The Hospitality industry was particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. As this release illustrates, the effects of the pandemic were felt across nearly all key indicators such as employment, output, gross value added, and consumption.

Overall Hospitality Sector Analysis

The Hospitality sector in Ireland supplied a total of €10.5 billion worth of services in 2021. Of this, total domestic supply was €7 billion, while Irish residents spent €1.4 billion on Hospitality services abroad, and product taxes were €2 billion. Total output of the Food & Beverage Service sector accounted for €4.4 billion (62%) and the Accommodation sector contributed €2.5 billion (35%) to total domestic supply. Total output for hospitality in 2021 was down 21% or €1.8 billion when compared with pre-pandemic figures in 2019.

Looking at the consumption side, households used €7.5 billion (72%) of hospitality services, tourists while staying in Ireland consumed €1.7 billion (16%), and businesses accounted for €1.2 billion. Accommodation services amounted to €2.7 billion (26%) of the total use of hospitality services while Food & Beverage Services accounted for €7.7 billion (74%).

Employment Breakdown

There were 129,000 people employed in the Hospitality Value Chain in 2021, which was down 22% on the pre-COVID-19 figure of 164,000. Of these employees, the most common occupations were chef, waiter, and bartender.

Overall, more women (54%) were employed by the Hospitality sector than men (46%), however, four times as many men were employed as bartenders and chefs than women. However, four times as many women worked as waiters than men. Workers in the Food & Beverage Service sector were paid €2.3 billion while those in the Accommodation sector were paid €1.2 billion.”

Read the full report from CSO here.

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