In April 2025, Ireland welcomed a total of 528,100 foreign tourists, reflecting a 4% decrease from April 2024, but a 14% increase compared to the same month in 2023, reports Breaking News.
Spending by these international visitors (excluding their transport fares) amounted to €375 million — a drop of 10% compared to April 2024, though still a slight increase of 1% compared to April 2023.
Travellers from Great Britain made up the largest share of tourists at 41%, followed by visitors from the United States who accounted for 18%, reports Breaking News.
Leisure and holidays were the most common reason for travel to Ireland, cited by 40% of visitors.
The total number of nights spent in the country by foreign visitors was 3.4 million — a 1% dip compared to April 2024 and 6% lower than in April 2023.
On average, overseas visitors stayed in Ireland for 6.5 nights, slightly up from 6.4 nights in April 2024, but down from 7.9 nights in April 2023, reports Breaking News.
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Gregg Patrick, a statistician in the tourism and travel division, commented: “The results show that 528,100 foreign visitors departed Ireland on overseas routes in April 2025, a decrease of 4 per cent compared with April 2024 and an increase of 14 per cent compared with April 2023.
Visitors’ expenditure in Ireland (excluding fares) was €375 million, reports Breaking News.
Visitors from Great Britain accounted for €96 million (26 per cent) of this spend, Continental Europe for €134 million (36 per cent), North America for €121 million (32 per cent), and visitors from the rest of the world for €25 million (7 per cent).
Taken together, this represented a fall of 10 per cent compared with April 2024, and a rise of 1 per cent compared with April 2023, reports Breaking News.
The visitors most frequent reason for their journey was for holiday or leisure (40 per cent). Their second most frequent reason was to visit friends or relatives (38 per cent).
More of the visitors stayed with family or in their own property (42 per cent) than in any other accommodation type, and the typical visit lasted 6.5 nights,” reports Breaking News.
Eoghan O’Mara Walsh, CEO of the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation, also weighed in on the latest figures, saying: “Industry use a variety of data sources, both their own and independently collated, and April was a strong month compared to the same month last year.
“Industry record bums on seats and heads on pillows as opposed to the CSO sample survey – there remains a misalignment of sorts between the two data sources but it is narrowing and this is welcome”, reports Breaking News.
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