Ring: Tourism on road to recovery

The Minister for Tourism says the sector is recovering.

Michael Ring made the comments following the publication of new CSO figures today which show the number of people visiting Ireland is up by nearly 8% from July to September.

The data for the last three months shows visitors from the US were up over 13%, Europe increased by 1.2% - while trips by UK residents rose by 9%.

Michael Ring said that this summer was very successful.