There was a decrease in the number of visitors from Great Britain to Ireland between April and June 2012 despite an overall increase in visitor numbers according to the Central Statistics Office.
This is when the figures are compared with the same period last year.
The number of trips by people from Great Britain fell by 3.4% to 735,200. However, there was a overall increase of 0.7% where 1,817,300 visitors came to the country.
Visitors from North America increased by 0.6% to 305,700 and trips made from the rest of europe went up by 3.8% to 672,400.
From the rest of the world, there was an increase of 11.9% to 104,000 trips made.
During this timeframe, less people from Ireland made overseas trips with a decrease of 1.5% to 1,727,500.
When putting together the total number of trips (Irish residents' trips overseas plus trips to Ireland), there was a decrease by 0.4% to 3,544,700.
This differs from the previous year where there was an increase of 10.7% from the same time in 2010.
The CSO database contains information on every direct flight in an dout of the nine Irish airports on a monthly basis.
Niall Gibbons, chief executive of Tourism Ireland, has said that the current economic situation is having an impact on the numbers of people travelling to and from the country.
"Global economic conditions, and in particular the ongoing problems within the Eurozone, continue to present a challenging environment for travel to Ireland, as reflected in today’s CSO figures which are flat for the first six months of the year," he said.
