Overseas tourists drive almost €6bn in revenue to State, figures reveal

Overseas visitors drove €5.8bn in revenue for the State across 2019 — a slight decrease on record figures seen in 2018, according to Tourism Ireland.

Overall, 11.2m visitors from abroad landed on Irish shores over the past 12 months, in what proved to be a “mixed bag” of a year, according to the body’s chief executive, Niall Gibbons.