Irish spent €1.2bn on foreign business trips and holidays

Irish residents spent €1.2bn on overseas business trips or holidays in the first three months of this year.

Generally, overseas’ travel was up on first quarter figures from last year, despite a late Easter which has been blamed for the fall in the number of domestic breaks.

Compared to the period January-March last year, a 9% drop in the number of domestic holiday breaks was recorded. The figures were revealed by the Central Statistics Office in its Household Travel Survey for the first quarter of 2017.