Irish tourism enjoying 10-year high in hotel occupancy

Driven largely by a boom in the number of tourists visiting the country, the occupancy rate stood at 70% — up from 64% in 2014. More than €7.2bn in revenue was generated by tourism last year, as more than 7.9m tourists visited the country — up 798,000 on 2014.

The number of North American visitors grew 13% to 1.3m in the last year, while visitors from mainland Europe were up 14% to 2.84m.

Visitors from Britain, Ireland’s main tourism market, were up by 8% to 3.25m.