25 July 2023

Findings from CSO’s Tourism Satellite Account – Deep Dive into tourism’s value to the national economy.

The CSO has just released its first Tourism Satellite Account, an internationally recognised framework for measuring tourist activity. It makes for interesting reading and underlines tourism’s importance to the national economy.

Using 2019 data – the last year of full data pre-pandemic – the TSA estimated that tourist activity accounts for 4.4% of the economy and employs 13% of the national workforce.

CLICK HERE to view this analysis report.