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With perfect snow reported over the European slopes, the half-term ski getaway will see thousands of families heading for European resorts. But, according to new research for AA Travel Insurance, nearly one fifth of travellers could come to a sticky and expensive end because they have no cover.
In an AA/Populus study of 2,000 AA members who are taking a winter holiday, 18 per cent say they don’t buy travel insurance. Of those that do, only a third (34 per cent) take the trouble to make sure that the cover is what they are looking for.
Alan Purvis, director of AA Travel Insurance, says that given the scope for serious injury on the slopes, finding that nearly a fifth don’t have insurance protection is worrying. “More than a million people go on a snow holiday every winter so potentially, up to 200,000 are uninsured,” he says.
Earlier research for the AA suggested that 11 per cent of travellers believe that the free European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is a substitute for travel insurance.
“Although every European traveller should take the EHIC, in fact it simply entitles UK citizens to the same level of medical care in an EU country that a lo………..
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