Official figures show a slight fall in the number of people travelling to Ireland between August and October, though visitor numbers for the year so far are still ahead of last year.
The Central Statistics Office said there were just over 1.9 million trips made to Ireland in the three-month period, down just 3,500 compared with the same period a year earlier.
Visits from Britain - Ireland's biggest tourism market - were down 1.7%, while trips from North America fell 2.5%. Visits from other European countries, however, increased by 2.4% compared with the same period last year.
For the first ten months of the year, foreign trips to Ireland are up 7.4% - or 387,200 - to just under 5.6 million.
Last week, Tourism Ireland forecast that 7.4 million people will have visited Ireland by the end of 2011, an increase of 7% from 2010.
Meanwhile, Irish people made 120,500 fewer trips abroad from August to October - a drop of 6.3% to just under 1.8 million. For the first ten months of 2011, Irish travel abroad fell by 4.1% to 5.56 million.
