Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes - number of tourists

In 2021, Ireland's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes increased by 27.7% compared to 2020, reaching 1,854,030.

Ireland accounts for 1.2% of the EU-27 total of 152,946,667.

Ireland ranks 15th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 5.0% (from 1,766,274 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset tin00185, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.