YouTube video encouraging holiday sickness claims banned
A YouTube video encouraging holidaymakers to make sickness claims when they return from their trips has been banned following a complaint by ABTA.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld three complaints made by the travel association against the video, which was promoting holidaysicknessclaims.co.uk run by Manchester-based Claims Legal.
The video featured a mock newsreader claiming there had been a rise in the number of holidaymakers suffering from ‘some form of general holiday sickness’, before going on to extensively quote a ‘Health World Organisation’ report stating that there were 351,000 deaths worldwide from foodborne illness, 52,000 caused by salmonella and 37,000 by e-coli.