Fewer Europeans visiting Ireland but more tourists from other areas

The numbers of European travellers holidaying in Ireland continued to fall this summer but people coming from further afield made more trips to Irish shores.

There was a modest increase in the number of trips to Ireland from North America and other non-European countries during the month of June, figures show.

But despite the extra few thousand tourists from long distance destinations making trips here, the number of tourists holidaying in Ireland from Britain and Europe continues to decline.