Solo holidays surge as singles get the travel bug

Single holidays are on the rise with a surge in Irish travellers going solo over the past five years.

Fresh figures from the market giants, Euromonitor, show the number of Irish people travelling abroad alone has rocketed by more than 50% from just over 930,000 trips as the recession hit in 2009 to more than 1.4 million trips last year.

Research has shown that more and more people are clocking up the air miles alone especially when it comes to signing up to active and exotic trips such as walking holidays and African safaris.