The Restaurants Association of Ireland is concerned over a fall in the number of tourists to Ireland.

CSO tourism figures show the number of visitors dropped from 737 thousand 600 in August to 582 thousand 100 in September.

There have been almost 1 million fewer international tourists to these shores in the third quarter of this year, compared to before the pandemic.

Restaurants Association Chief Executive, Adrian Cummins says this is a major drop which must be tackled.