Persons participating in tourism for personal purposes by age group - number of tourists

In 2016, Ireland's persons participating in tourism for personal purposes by age group increased by 3.6% compared to 2015, reaching 422,838.

Ireland accounts for 1.3% of the EU-27 total of 33,524,727.

Ireland ranks 17th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Source: Eurostat dataset tin00187, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.