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Hotels hit by British tourists' food poisoning scams
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 8:25 am
by 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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Re: Hotels hit by British tourists' food poisoning scams
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 8:30 am
by Dominic
This doesn't make me feel proud to be British in the slightest.
Re: Hotels hit by British tourists' food poisoning scams
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 3:44 pm
by 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
Re: Hotels hit by British tourists' food poisoning scams
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 10:23 pm
by WHL
They should jump om these official scamming firms who encourage this .
Re: Hotels hit by British tourists' food poisoning scams
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 1:47 am
by PhotoLady
Agreed, that should be the first port of call....
Re: Hotels hit by British tourists' food poisoning scams
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 8:49 am
by 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
Re: Hotels hit by British tourists' food poisoning scams
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 6:33 pm
by Jimgward
They still advertise on radio stations, for people to call them about claims like this. Ambulance chasers, turned scum.