New data from the Central Statistics Office showed the figures continued to rise of the previous year, when there were 13.3 million overnight trips, with total expenditure of €2.9 billion. But overall nights were slightly lower, at 34 million last year compared with 34.2 million in 2022.
The south of the country was the most popular destination for domestic overnight trips, including Clare, Tipperary, Limerick, Waterford, Kilkenny, Carlow, Wexford, Cork and Kerry.Insurance board’s Rosalind Carroll: ‘Soft tissue neck injuries are not coming as they would have before’The outlook for interest rate cuts is changing - so should Irish borrowers be worried?
There were 12.6 million outbound overnight trips taken during the same period, with almost 3 million n the final three months of 2023. More than a third – 38 per cent – were to a destination in the UK, including Northern Ireland.