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TOURISM IS IRELAND’S largest indigenous employer and last year visitors to the country spent €4.6 billion, according to Fáilte Ireland.
That huge spend is spread out across all Ireland’s regions but the Irish Tourism Industry Confederation (ITIC) has collated the figures to see which areas benefit most from tourism.
Unsurprisingly, most of the tourist money spent in Ireland is spent in Dublin. Tourist expenditure in Dublin accounts for 43% of all the money spent here and in monetary terms comes it comes in at just under €2 billion.
What’s striking about Dublin’s share of the tourism pie is that it has grown each year over the past three years from 38% of the total in 2014.
In a commentary on the figures, the ITIC speculates that Dublin’s increasing share of visitor spend may be partly to do with the trend for more city-break travel.
The regions are broken down into the seven different regions that are used by the CSO and in those terms the southwest, comprising Cork and Kerry, has the second-largest spend by tourists.
Those two countries together raked in €849 million last year, or 22% of the total.
The border region, which is made up of the five counties bordering Northern Ireland plus Sligo, has shown the biggest growth in tourist spend over the three-year period to last year.
An increase of more than €100 million was recorded over that period meaning the border region has moved ahead of the south east in terms of where tourists spend their money.
Overall, annual tourism grew by over €1 billion last year compared to 2014.
Attractions
Fáilte Ireland has also put together an updated list of the most popular tourist attractions in the country, both paid and free.
The Guinness Storehouse remains the most popular place for tourists to visit with a total of 1.65 million visitors last year. The Cliffs of Moher was the second most popular with 1.43 million visits.
The National Gallery of Ireland was the most popular free attraction and was the seventh most popular overall.
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Did you genuinely write an article saying you can get messenger on a computer?
But did you know it existed? I didn’t.
I often read posts here about journal having weak stories and think what a bunch of moaners. But now seriously, journal you can’t publish an article about a ‘little known app like messenger’. Everyone uses messenger and there’s not much need for a tutorial on a news site
Always on the cutting edge of new technology eh journal? Not really.
Did no one know about this?
Young persons of my acquaintance made me aware of this some time ago. However, since I’ve no interest in Facebook (or Facebook lite) the information wasn’t much use to me.
i use this in work and i also use whatsapp web which is also very good and also owned by Facebook
Being an auld one (in terms of tech) I hadn’t a clue what this was. So you’re going to get at least one thank you anyway for writing this article ;)
Oh my good God, is B for blather
If Facebook is banned so is messenger
Firefox has an add on that disables your news feed. Very useful as the news feed had turned to crap with adverts and posts from people I don’t know and you can still post happy birthday to friends’ walls etc. Just no more stupid posts.
That would be all of them then.
Yeah, why not let face book data mine your personal relationships.
It’s an essential part of modern life?
A post about facebook? Pitchforks out. I didn’t know about this myself, surprisingly. Gotta find out about it somewhere I guess.
Jeez I’m 68 and I’ve been using messenger to chat with almost all my acquaintances for a year now ! Little known ! Like Brennan’s Bread ! Of course you must have a Facebook account…. And real butter for the Brennan’s !
I would rate this a good as Skype if not better
What the f did I just read , really ? I want my 20 seconds back
Hi Rob, Did you know that ALL businesses can now support their customers via Facebook Live Chat directly on their websites with Zotabox’s easy to use integration tool? http://bit.ly/fb10001. Messenger is ubiquitous, free and easy to use and both parties have a permanent chat history.
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