Ireland in top five of tourists’ dream destinations

Ireland has been placed fourth in a top-10 list of dream destinations by readers of an up-market travel magazine in the US.

Around 8,000 readers of Virtuoso Life magazine took part in the 7th annual Travel Dreams survey, in which Ireland also emerged as the third favourite family vacation.

Australia, Italy, and New Zealand took the top three slots in this year’s Travel Dreams survey but Ireland was ahead of France, South Africa, the Caribbean, Greece, England, and French Polynesia.