Tony Lane CEO of Visit USA Dublin
reland is the 14th most important market for travel to the USA in October, sending 57,469 visits, up 9pc on 2024 and 6.6pc on pre-pandemic. Ireland is one of the only markets to have recovered to pre-pandemic levels of visits to the USA. Rolling annual was 495,809, marginally up by 0.9pc.
European markets continue to under-perform. Germany is down 15.1pc in October and France down by 10.2pc. England led October US visits with 426,538 arrivals while India topped year-to-date totals at 1,791,302.
The US Department of Commerce record of 39,742 visits from Ireland in September was down 5.9pc on September 2024 and 13.5pc on pre-pandemic.
September was the first month that Irish visits to the USA have shown a negative return compared with 2024, following a trend established across Europe since the inauguration of Donald Trump. A decline in March was attributable to the change of date for Easter.
Canada remains the most dramatically declining market. The number of Canadian-resident return trips from the U.S. by air was down by 27.1pc.
