Hotels, restaurants & bars up 6%
The Hotels, Restaurants & Bars category showed growth of 5.89% while Food & Drink grew 1.2% last month, signalling a pick-up in momentum according to the Index.
Halloween helped boost Irish consumer spending in October. Sharp and accelerated rises in expenditure were also recorded in the Recreation & Culture (up 9.3%).
Household expenditure was up 4.0% year-on-year, the fastest in four months following a modest rise of 1.5% in September.