Severe allergic reactions, particularly to food, and biking incidents on gravelly descents were the two specific types of incident that stood out in the charity’s recently published data for 2022.
The data was gathered from travel operator partners licensed for a combined 7.5 million trips, as well as media reports, Foreign Office intelligence and inquest findings.
Severe allergic reactions to food, insect bites and other allergens, in particular, have increased post-pandemic, while the number of “near misses”, where a severe reaction was avoided, has also gone up the research shows.
