Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) has published its data on Inbound Tourism for June 2025.
“The results show that 654,500 foreign visitors departed Ireland on overseas routes in June 2025, down 2% compared with June 2024 and up by 6% compared with June 2023," Gregg Patrick, Statistician in the CSO's Tourism and Travel Division, said.
"The number of nights spent by foreign visitors in June was almost 5.2 million nights, an increase of 6% compared with June 2024 and up 14% compared with 2023.
"In June 2025, the greatest number of visitors came from Great Britain (34%), followed by Continental Europe (31%), North America (30%), and the Rest of the World (5%).
"However, when compared with June 2024, visitors from Great Britain fell by 1%, visitors from Continental Europe decreased by 6%, and visitors from the Rest of the World declined by 20%.
"In contrast, visitors from North America were up 5%.
"Compared with June 2023, visitors from Great Britain were down by 2%, the Rest of the World down by 17%, whilst visitors from North America & Continental Europe were up 16% and 10%."
Patrick continued: "The visitors' expenditure in Ireland (excluding fares) was €647 million in June 2025.
"Visitors from Great Britain accounted for €118 million (18%) of this spend, Continental Europe for €200 million (31%), North America for €283 million (44%), and visitors from the Rest of the World for €47 million (7%).
"Taken together, this represented a fall of 6% compared with June 2024, and a rise of 8% compared with June 2023.
"The most frequent reason for the visitors' trips was for holiday or leisure (47%), while almost one in three trips (30%) were to visit friends or relatives.”
Over 654,000 foreign visitors to Ireland in June 2025, spending €647 million
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"Mixed season"
Commenting on Ireland's June 2025 inbound tourism figures, Eoghan O'Mara Walsh, CEO of the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation (ITIC), said: "Irish tourism and hospitality businesses continue to have a mixed season.
"June numbers represent the beginning of the summer period, and although North American business is performing well, other markets are soft.
"Cost of business pressures and capacity constraints continue to hamper the industry, and we hope that these are addressed on Budget Day.
"With unprecedented macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty, now is the time to support a key home-grown indigenous industry such as tourism."
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"Part of a wider decline in tourism spend so far this year"
Meanwhile, the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) expressed "serious concerns" about the ongoing drop in expenditure by overseas visitors.
IHF Chief Executive Paul Gallagher said: “While our own industry data indicates that occupancy rates for hotels are on a par with last year, we are seeing a softening in revenue and room prices. This appears to be part of a wider decline in tourism spend so far this year as indicated by recent CSO figures.
“If this weakness continues throughout the summer, it would pose a very significant challenge for tourism businesses nationwide that are already struggling under unsustainable increases in operating costs.
"This is at a time when we are experiencing difficult headwinds on a number of other fronts, including economic challenges across our key source markets, increased political uncertainty internationally and the fallout from EU/US tariffs – all of which threaten Irish tourism.”
Gallagher noted that Fáilte Ireland's Tourism Barometer June 2025 showed that 51% of tourism businesses have seen a decrease in revenues to date in 2025 compared with last year.
"Results indicate that overseas visitor spend, which typically accounts for 70% of tourism revenue, is a significant concern," the IHF said.
"This is particularly challenging for ‘Food & Drink’ businesses, with 75% reporting a drop in overseas revenue so far this year."
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