British Visitors To Ireland Down
The numbers of visitors from Britain to Ireland has dropped by 7.5% according to figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). However overall the number of visitors to Ireland increased by 1.7% to 3.1 million. Europeans took up the vast majority of visitors with 2.2 million vistors from across Europe, while a small majority of those from Europe came from outside Britain with 1.1million visitors. Just under 1million visitors from outside Europe visited the country the vast majority coming from North America.
5.8million Irish people headed off for the summer months an increase of 9.6%.
Overseas Travel
June - August 2017
| Irish Residents' Trips Overseas | Trips to Ireland by Area of Residence | |||||||
| Trips to Ireland | Great Britain | Other Europe | North America | Other Areas | ||||
| Jun - Aug '15 | 2,316,700 | 2,787,700 | 1,025,200 | 989,500 | 589,900 | 183,100 | ||
| Jun - Aug '16 | 2,357,600 | 3,088,000 | 1,132,500 | 1,096,200 | 667,600 | 191,700 | ||
| Jun - Aug '17 | 2,584,600 | 3,141,800 | 1,047,300 | 1,122,200 | 756,500 | 215,700 | ||
| Jan - Aug '15 | 4,795,200 | 5,834,200 | 2,357,200 | 2,077,000 | 1,043,100 | 356,800 | ||
| Jan - Aug '16 | 5,030,200 | 6,552,800 | 2,673,600 | 2,309,000 | 1,203,600 | 366,600 | ||
| Jan - Aug '17 | 5,469,900 | 6,714,600 | 2,483,200 | 2,383,400 | 1,419,400 | 428,600 | ||
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