{"id":51186,"date":"2025-09-29T19:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/51186\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:06:12","slug":"tourist-numbers-rise-by-1-2-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/51186\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist numbers rise by 1.2% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourist numbers in August, a key month for the hospitality industry, were up 1.2% compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>The new figures from the Central Statistics Office follow a number of months when numbers were down on 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding fares, last month tourists spent 9.3% less than they did the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The average length of stay for foreign resident overnight visitors was 8.6 nights, down from an average of 8.7 nights in August 2024 and 9.9 nights in August 2023,&#8221; the CSO said.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the largest contingent of visitors came from Great Britain (36%), followed by visitors from the US (23%).<\/p>\n<p>The most frequent reason for travelling to Ireland was for holiday (48%).<\/p>\n<p>The visitors spent \u20ac744m on their trips (excluding fares), a drop of 9% when compared with August last year, and an increase of 1% compared with August 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tourist numbers in August, a key month for the hospitality industry, were up 1.2% compared to last year.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-51186","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\/51186","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=51186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}