DUBLIN, March 29 (Xinhua) — The number of overseas visitors to Ireland continued to fall sharply in February, with no imminent improvement in sight for the country’s tourism sector, showed the statistics released here on Monday.
In February, only 54,800 people visited Ireland from abroad, down 49.2 percent when compared with January and 95.5 percent lower when compared with February 2020, said the country’s national statistics bureau CSO.
Of all the overseas visitors to Ireland in the month, 92.1 percent of them arrived by air while 7.9 percent of them arrived by sea, said the CSO in a statement.
The European continent contributed 57.6 percent to the total number of overseas visitors to Ireland in February, followed by Britain (24…