“In recent years more Irish people have been opting to stay at home to holiday and are finding that caravanning and camping offers great value. We are looking forward to a similar increase in 2012.” said Niamh D’Arcy, chairperson of the Irish Caravan and Camping Council.
New figures, which have been released by the ICC at the beginning of this year’s camping season, show that 80% of people who stayed in caravans or camped at camping parks in 2011 were Irish, of which only 56% of people were in 2010.
The Irish Caravan and Camping Council is a National Trade association, which is composed of approximately 100 caravan and camping park operators, whose sites are Failte Ireland registered and classified by the organisation. www.camping-ireland.ie
Sites are dispersed throughout the country including great Ulster parks in Armagh, Antrim, Fermanagh and Tyrone, in the West and South in counties Sligo, Mayo, Clare and Cork as well as some on Dublin’s doorstep in Kilkenny, Wicklow and Wexford.
