The country is set for another year of staycations with fewer than one-in-six (15.9pc) Irish people intending to holiday overseas in 2021, a survey carried out by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has found.
In November 2020, 50.6pc of respondents anticipated their next international flight would be sometime in 2021. However, in February 2021, this expectation was reported by 15.9pc of respondents.
About 40pc of people said they intended to take a holiday in the Republic of Ireland for at least one week’s duration in 2021, in comparison with the proportion of respondents (30.9pc) that said they took such a holiday in a typical year prior to the onset of Covid-19.