Irish take more holidays despite credit crunch
Irish take more holidays despite credit crunch
The Irish are taking more holidays despite the gloomy economic outlook. Holidays both on home soil and abroad are both up according to recent figures.
Travel figures from the
Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that the Irish took more holidays during the first quarter of 2008 than in the same period last year, reports The Irish Times.
Domestic tourism in
Ireland was up 17.2 per cent from last year's figures, and the number of
holidays abroad taken by the Irish saw an increase of 18.7 per cent.
In terms of the destinations,
Asia and the Middle East showed the biggest increase in popularity (up 71 per cent). The amount of holidays taken to
America also registered significant growth. Most of the
European holidays were taken in the United Kingdom, followed by
Spain and
France.
As well as the number of trips spending on
international travel also increased; €1,594.5m, up 17.1 per cent on 2007. It was not only the money spent on getting to their destination that increased;
holiday spending grew by over 20 per cent to €1,132.2m.
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30 July 2008
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