Hotels hit by British tourists' food poisoning scams

[Paphos Life]

British tourists making false claims of food poisoning in an attempt to get "easy money" have cost the Cypriot hotel industry over €5 million in the past two years, the Cyprus Hotels Association (Pasyxe) said on Wednesday....

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[Dominic]

This doesn't make me feel proud to be British in the slightest.

[PhotoLady]

UK Package holiday firms are clamping down on fake sickness claims:

Britain's biggest holiday companies and travel industry body ABTA have launched a campaign to fight crippling fake food poisoning claims.
Bosses from package firms including Thomas Cook, TUI, Jet2holidays, Monarch and Saga are calling on the Government to crackdown on the latest scam which is fleecing the Spanish hotel industry of more than £50 million a year.
The Stop Sickness Scams bid comes ahead of the great summer getaway to Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Greece.
Sunshine package giants Thomson, First Choice and Jet2holidays have already warned Brits they will be blacklisted if found guilty of bogus sickness claims.Britain's biggest holiday companies and travel industry body ABTA have launched a campaign to fight crippling fake food poisoning claims.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/trave ... s-10657659

[WHL]

They should jump om these official scamming firms who encourage this .

[PhotoLady]

Agreed, that should be the first port of call....

[WHL]

I recently heard on the radio that a Hotel in Greece is suing a British couple who made a bogas claim for food poisoning, apparently they are in danger of loosing their home, no sympathy from me.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... 0-000.html

[Jimgward]

They still advertise on radio stations, for people to call them about claims like this. Ambulance chasers, turned scum.