Spain, Portugal and France are top travel destinations this summer

With the cloud over the nation’s finances for most of the last decade finally blowing over, many people are taking to the blue skies to once again enjoy a sun holiday.

According to Pat Dawson, chief executive of the Irish Travel Agents Association, the number one destination is definitely Spain, with 1.5 million Irish people expected to make trips there this year, which is a healthy increase on last year.

It was recently revealed that the number of Irish tourists to Spain in January and February increased by 20.2% when compared with same period last year and that overall the total number of overseas trips made by Irish residents during the period December 2015 to February 2016 increased by 7.7% to 1,363,000.