Almost 565,000 visitors came to Ireland in April, according to the Central Statistics Office, a 7% increase on the same month of 2025.<\/p>\n
The number of nights the visitors spent here rose 14% to more-than 3.9m – meaning the average length of each stay rose slightly, to just under seven nights each.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile visitors’ combined expenditure – excluding their air fares – rose by 15% to \u20ac431.3m in the month.<\/p>\n
It means the average visitor in the month each spent \u20ac764 during their stay.<\/p>\n
People from Britain made up the biggest share of visitors in the month, representing 39% of visits at 218,000. This compares to just over 214,000 visitors from Britain in April 2025.<\/p>\n
Visitors from continental Europe made up 36% of tourist trips to Ireland last month, with 41,700 coming from Germany alone.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile North America accounted for 21% of visitors, with an increase in the number of visitors from both Canada and the US.<\/p>\n
There were around 104,300 visitors coming from the US – up 12% year-on-year. Meanwhile around 14,300 people came from Canada, up 30%.<\/p>\n
Overall, just over 40% of overseas visitors said the main purpose of their trip here was holiday, leisure and recreation.<\/p>\n
Just over one third said their trip was to visit friends and relatives, while 15% said they were travelling for business reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 565,000 visitors came to Ireland in April, according to the Central Statistics Office, a 7% increase on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-472935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472935","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=472935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}