New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that of the 1,361,500 passengers departing Ireland on overseas routes in November, 32.9% were foreign visitors completing their trips, with the rest being Irish residents heading abroad - 57.9% - and foreign same-day visitors (9.3%).
Of the 447,500 foreign visitors, some 40.8% were from Great Britain, 16.8% were from the US and 6.6% were from Germany.
Today's figures show that a typical visit by a foreign visitor lasted 6.9 nights and their most frequent reason for visiting was for holiday or leisure purposes (39.6%).
They also reveal that 39.6% of visitors had holiday as the main reason for their trip here, while the next most likely reason was to visit friends or relatives with 36.5% of the visitors coming for this purpose. A further 18.9% of the visitors had come for business or work-related reasons.
More of the visitors stayed mainly in hotels (46.5%) than in any other accommodation type, while another 40.8% of them stayed either in their own property or the property of friends or relatives.
The mean cost of their visit was €986, which included €240 on fare, €27 on prepayments, €312 on accommodation and €406 on day-to-day expenditure.
The total estimated expenditure of foreign visitors on their trips to Ireland was €441.1m, the CSO added.
