Written answers

Thursday, 7 December 2017

Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

Tourism Data

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the locations from which tourists to Dublin predominantly come; the categories of tourists, such as business, leisure, sport, walking and so on that visit Dublin in terms of numbers and percentage of the total tourist make up, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52569/17]

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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As the Deputy is aware, official statistics on tourism are published by the Central Statistics Office. Whilst the CSO does not currently publish statistics for overseas visitors on a county or regional basis, Fáilte Ireland uses CSO data to estimate regional figures for overseas visitors, including Dublin, which it publishes on an annual basis in its Tourism Facts release, which is available at www.failteireland.ie.  This publication indicates that, in 2016, of the 5.687 million overseas visitors to Dublin, 39% came from Mainland Europe, 33% from Britain, 21% from North America and 7% from elsewhere.  The release does not detail the categories of overseas tourists visiting Dublin.

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the markets and countries from which tourists visiting come from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52571/17]

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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The CSO publishes official statistics on tourism in Ireland. These statistics are published and available at .

The CSO data shows that overseas visits to Ireland in 2016 grew by 10.9% compared to 2015. There were 9,584,400 overseas visits to Ireland during 2016, coming from the following markets:

- Visits from Mainland Europe grew by 8.5% in 2016, to 3,302,100 visits

- North America registered an increase of 19.4% for 2016 (1,808,000 visits)

- Visits from Great Britain were up by 10.6% for 2016 (3,924,100 visits)

- Visits from the rest of the world (mostly long-haul and developing markets) totalled 550,200 for 2016 (representing an increase of 2.2%).

Trips to Ireland for the first ten months of 2017 were up by 3.1% compared to the corresponding period in 2016. There were 8,531,500 overseas visits to Ireland during the ten-month period. 

- Mainland Europe was up by 4.4% for the first ten months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016 (3,016,700 visits).

- The number of visits from Britain for the first ten months of 2017 was down by -6.1% compared to the same period in 2016 (3,132,900 visits).

- The number of visits from North America was up by 16.4% for the first ten months of 2017 compared to the corresponding period in 2016, with a total of 1,845,200 visits.

- For Other (i.e. long-haul) markets, there was a 14.7% increase in visit numbers in the first ten months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016 (536,600 visits).

More detailed information is available on the CSO website.

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