Foreign visitors to Ireland decrease by 30% in February 2025

Foreign visitors decreased by 30 per cent in February 2025, according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

Some 304,300 foreign visitors completed a trip to Ireland in February 2025, a decrease of 30 per cent compared with February 2024.

The visitors spent €196 million on their trips (excluding fares), down 31 per cent compared with February 2024.

The largest contingent of visitors came from Great Britain (49 per cent), and the second largest came from the United States (10 per cent).

The most frequent reason for travelling to Ireland was to visit family or friends (3 per cent).

The visitors stayed a total of 1.8 million nights in the country, a drop of 33 per cent when compared with February 2024.

The average length of stay for foreign resident overnight visitors was 5.9 nights, down from an average of 6.2 nights in February 2024..

Commenting on the release, Gregg Patrick, statistician in the Tourism and Travel Division, said: “The results show…