# International tourist arrivals in Ireland

International tourist arrivals in Ireland was 6.59 million in 2024. Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

- Indicator id: `international_tourists`
- Place id: `ie`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Non-resident visitors who stay at least one night (tourists) arriving in the country. Spain and its regions: INE FRONTUR, by main destination region. Other countries, yearly: OECD inbound tourism table, from frontier statistics or visitor surveys.
- Note: Same-day visitors are not included; overnight and same-day visitors together are international_visitor_arrivals. The OECD series for Spain repeats FRONTUR. Countries count arrivals in different ways, so gaps between countries partly reflect method.
- Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD Inbound tourism: arrivals of non-resident overnight visitors (tourists), tourism demand surveys and frontier statistics (DSD_TOURISM_INTER@DF_INBOUND) (https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_TOURISM_INTER%40DF_INBOUND&df[ag]=OECD.CFE.TOU)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/oecd
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- License: OECD data reuse terms: commercial reuse with attribution; dataset-specific restrictions apply
- Citation: OECD. OECD Inbound tourism: arrivals of non-resident overnight visitors (tourists), tourism demand surveys and frontier statistics (DSD_TOURISM_INTER@DF_INBOUND). https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?df[ds]=dsDisseminateFinalDMZ&df[id]=DSD_TOURISM_INTER%40DF_INBOUND&df[ag]=OECD.CFE.TOU. Accessed 2026-10-12. Data reuse terms and downstream attribution: https://www.oecd.org/en/about/terms-conditions.html
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/international-tourists/ireland
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=international_tourists&place=ie

| Period | count |
|---|---:|
| 2024 | 6,591,600 |
| 2023 | 6,257,300 (break) |
| 2019 | 9,353,000 |
| 2018 | 9,273,000 |
| 2017 | 8,722,000 |
| 2016 | 8,425,000 |
| 2015 | 7,747,000 |
| 2014 | 6,824,000 |
| 2013 | 6,393,000 |
| 2012 | 6,035,000 |
| 2011 | 6,021,000 |
| 2010 | 5,695,000 |
| 2009 | 6,470,000 |
| 2008 | 7,288,000 |