SARS not expected to threaten sun holidays

TOUR operators don’t expect the SARS threat to affect demand for sun holidays this summer.

Last year a record 1.06 million Irish people took overseas sun holidays between May and October and the Irish Travel Agents Association (ITAA) expects that figure to be matched again this year.

ITAA president Tony Brazil said bookings slowed down after a busy start to the year but pre-Christmas bookings were up 30% on 2002.