Overseas arrivals in Ireland up 440 pct YoY in January

Ireland registered 584,100 overseas visitors in January, up 440.8 percent year-on-year (YoY), the country's Central Statistics Office (CSO) said on Tuesday.

The figure is 15.7 percent lower than that of December 2021 and 52.7 percent lower than that of pre-pandemic January 2020, it said.

In December 2021, 692,900 overseas visitors arrived in Ireland, while the respective figure in January 2020 was nearly 1.24 million.

Of all the persons arriving in Ireland from overseas in January, nearly 97 percent arrived by air and the rest by sea.

The European continental route accounted for 60.8 percent of all overseas arrivals in January, followed by the cross-channel route (28.2 percent) and the transatlantic route (6.9 percent). The remaining visitors arrived from other parts of the world.

Britain was the largest source of overseas visitors to Ireland. It accounted for all the cross-channel activity in January, followed by Spain and France, the CSO said.

In January, Ireland was visited by 164,700 people from Britain (not including Northern Ireland), 88,900 people from Spain and 39,100 people from France.