{"id":110318,"date":"2025-10-29T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110318\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:47:07","slug":"number-of-tourists-down-7-5-so-far-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/110318\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of tourists down 7.5% so far this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of tourists coming to Ireland is down 7.5% so far this year compared to 2024, according to data from the Central Statistics Office.<\/p>\n

From January to September this year there were 4,851,000 foreign visitors compared to 5,245,000 in the same period last year.<\/p>\n

Expenditure so far this year by tourists was \u20ac5.7 billion, down from \u20ac6.6 billion the same time last year, a drop of 13%.<\/p>\n

There was a decrease in the amount spent on accommodation from \u20ac2 billion to \u20ac1.7 billion, a fall of 15%.<\/p>\n

So far this year the numbers of tourists using hotels has been similar to last year at 275,000.<\/p>\n

However, the figures show the number of tourists coming to Ireland last month was up 5% compared to September of last year.<\/p>\n

\"CSO<\/p>\n

But the average length of stay last month was 7.1 nights, down from an average of 7.8 nights in September 2024 and 8 nights in September 2023.<\/p>\n

The visitors spent over \u20ac570m on their trips (excluding fares), down 16% when compared with September 2024, and a decrease of 5% compared with September 2023.<\/p>\n

Eoghan O’Mara Walsh, CEO of the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation, said the CSO’s figures do not tally with the experience of industry. <\/p>\n

He said so far this year “it is flat or down marginally.”<\/p>\n

But he said the CSO’s figures showed a “more dramatic decline.”<\/p>\n

He said that was not the experience of the main tourism attractions or the large hotel groups. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of tourists coming to Ireland is down 7.5% so far this year compared to 2024, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-110318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}