577,400 visitors from overseas visited Ireland in October, down slightly on September, according to the Central Statistics Office.
Of those, more than a third were from Great Britain, with 21% from the US and 7.8% from Germany.
"The results show that among the 1,829,700 passengers departing Ireland on overseas routes in October 2023, some 577,400 (31.6%) were foreign visitors completing their trips (with the balance being Irish residents heading abroad (59.3%) and foreign same-day visitors (9.2%))," said Gregg Patrick, Statistician in the Tourism and Travel Division.
Just under half were here for a holiday or leisure reasons, and while here they spent €695.1m.
The visitors spent a combined total of 3.958m nights in the country.
That means on average they stayed in Ireland for 6.9 nights and spent an average of €1,204 on their trips.
Visitors from Europe, excluding Great Britain, spent more nights in the country than any other residency group, accounting for 33.6% of the nights.
The next most important visitor group, in terms of nights spent, was the USA & Canada, making up 29.6% of nights.
People coming from Great Britain were third most important, accounting for 23.0% of nights.
"More of the visitors stayed primarily in hotels (46.1%) than in any other accommodation type, and the mean cost of their visit was €1,204 (comprising €311 on fare, €52 on prepayments, €412 on accommodation, and €429 on day-to-day expenditure)," said Mr Patrick.
Overall, on average the costliest part of the overseas visitors stay here was spending on things like eating out, entrance fees, public transport, but excluding accommodation, making up 35.7% of total expenditure.
The next costliest category of spending was accommodation at €238.1 million, which made up 34.3% of the total.
