Six months ago today the government announced plans to clamp down on holiday sickness scams. This was a welcome intervention — hotels and tour operators have spent tens of millions of pounds dealing with compensation cases from people who make unsubstantiated claims to have fallen ill while on holiday — and it’s important the government puts measures in place before the main 2018 holiday season. The travel industry has become the latest target of the growing compensation culture in Britain — as many as 9.5 million people have been approached about making a claim for holiday sickness, that’s one in five British adults. This has led to a 500 per cent rise in the number of claims received by travel companies about gastric illness since…

Source: The Times January 09, 2018 00:19 UTC