Tour operators are facing a “new field” of legal claims for “trips and slips” from customers on their holidays, a leading travel lawyer has warned.
The travel industry is facing more personal injury legal cases
The industry may also have to brace itself in the coming decades for more litigation in areas such as medical tourism, so-called “workations” where people work while travelling, and even from the impact on holidays of climate change and extreme weather.
Abta’s annual Travel Law Seminar in London heard that the number of claims against travel firms for personal injuries suffered on holiday was increasing.
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