Total outbound trips by Irish residents in 2024 was 13.68m trips and 81.2m bed nights abroad, according to the Central Statistics Office Household travel survey.
The average length of stay was 5.3 nights and expenditure was €12,546.4m or an average of €917 per head. Outbound trips were 6.3pc ahead of 2023, when the average spend was just over €1,000, according to the equivalent survey.
Of these 61.3pc were holiday trips, 25.4pc visiting friends and relatives, 7.3pc business and 5.5pc “other.” Irish trips abroad to Europe accounted for 57.2pc of the total, 32.9pc to Britain and non -EU Europe, 3.7pc to North America and 6.4pc elsewhere.
The average home holiday has shortened by half a day since 2021. Domestic Irish holiday makers took 16,591,000 trips in 2024 and spent €3.5bn, up 8,2pc and an average of €211 a trip, of which 44.4pc were trips to visit friends and relatives, 37.7pc were holiday and 6.1pc were business.
