Irish residents spent a total of 29.1 million nights on outbound trips in the third quarter of this year, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show.
The CSO said most of these nights were for holiday purposes, accounting for 75% of the total. Visits to friends or relatives represented 18% of the nights, while business-related travel made up 3%.
The total number of outbound trips in the third quarter of 2025 increased to 4.6 million, a 10% rise compared with the same time last year.
But the average length of stay for outbound overnight trips was 6.3 nights, down from to 6.8 in the third quarter of 2024.
Today's CSO figures also show the number of nights spent on domestic overnight trips taken in the three months from July to September decreased by 10% compared with the same time in 2024.
The CSO said that holiday trips accounted for the largest share of domestic nights at 60%, followed by visits to friends or relatives at 29%. Business travel represented 3% of all overnight stays.
The most popular region visited by Irish residents on overnight trips was the Southern region (Clare, Tipperary, Limerick, Waterford, Kilkenny, Carlow, Wexford, Cork, and Kerry), accounting for 2.3 million trips.
The Eastern & Midland region (Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, Meath, Louth, Longford, Westmeath, Offaly, and Laois) had the least number of domestic overnight trips at 1.2 million trips.
