UK visitors account for majority of tourists here in January

Travel over and back was the second highest expense for visitors to Ireland. File picture

Most of the tourists and visitors who came to Ireland last month are from the UK, and they each spent just under €1,000 on their trips here.

According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), 42.3% of the 451,900 foreign visitors who departed Ireland on overseas routes in January this year were from Britain, 11.1% were from the US and 5.8% were from Germany.