Debate contribution: Tourism Statistics
Debate contribution by Mr Conor Murphy on .
- MLA
- Mr Conor Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 12 November 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Tourism Statistics
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4658643
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The stats, which NISRA released just this morning, run from March 2023 to March 2024. They reference that 5·4 million overnight trips were taken, with a £1·2 billion spend. Some 52% of those were for holidays, 37% were to visit friends and 7% were for business purposes, although people would have perhaps imagined that that was a larger market. About 37% of them were from outside the island. Again, that lends itself to the promotion activities of Tourism Ireland. There were 16·3 million day trips taken, and that is about a £1·1 billion spend. That is largely made up of residents on the island itself. Those figures are encouraging. Our tourism figures are getting to beyond where they were pre-pandemic, and, obviously, our tourism and hospitality industries continue to struggle with a range of costs, especially for energy. They are trying to recover from the pandemic experience, and the ongoing challenges include inflationary costs as well. Those are encouraging figures, and, obviously, we want to do all that is in our power to encourage sustainable tourism growth across the North.
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