Here comes the sun

THERE’S no doubt about it, Irish people are taking fewer foreign holidays.

Overseas visits have plummeted by about 20% since 2008 and the package holidays sold this year are likely to be around a third of the million-plus that flew off the shelves at the peak of the boom.

Despite the cutbacks, however, a keen interest in travel remains. We still love reading about travel, be it armchair adventures or fly-and-flop holidays on the beach, and the fact that we have less money to spend only means we think more carefully about the trips we can make.