Spending on foreign travel down last year
The amount of money spent by Irish residents on foreign travel fell by almost 20% last year - to just less than €5.8bn.
New figures from the CSO show the number of international trips in 2009 - fell by 9.3% - to 7.29 million.
Meanwhile, the number of domestic trips by Irish residents remained virtually unchanged for 2009 compared to 2008.
