Holiday planning: Where and how are you most likely to get scammed?
The travel industry is among the sectors considered "most susceptible to fraud." New research reveals the most common scams in some of the world's top travel destinations.
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The travel industry is among the sectors considered "most susceptible to fraud." New research reveals the most common scams in some of the world's top travel destinations.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/09/holiday-planning-where-and-how-are-you-most-likely-to-get-scammed
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00:00Planning a holiday? Here's how you're most likely to get scammed, depending on the destination.
00:10Fraud in popular tourism spots jumps by 28% during peak seasons,
00:16and the risk begins way before leaving home.
00:19Some examples, fake destination photos, broken confirmation links and bogus deals.
00:26Speaking of which, fraud rates in travel agencies and tour operators appear particularly significant,
00:33more than four times higher than the global average.
00:37Cities like Hong Kong, Delhi, Barcelona and Cancun are the most hit by these scams,
00:44which there represent around half or more of all travel frauds.
00:49Taxi and car rentals aren't immune either.
00:52Jakarta has the highest taxi fraud rate of all 17 cities analyzed, followed by Bangkok, Istanbul and London.
01:01Food scams also pose problems, you might pay for a meal that never arrives or get overcharged at a restaurant.
01:09And that is particularly true in American cities like LA and New York,
01:14where food scams represent respectively 75% and 63% of the total.
01:20On the bright side, booking flights and trains seems pretty safe across all surveyed cities,
01:26with scam rates generally below 10%.
01:30So you are still on the right side but not to get around 8%.
01:33The only obvious thing that you are missing is to be arrive at night to see the right side of the day.
01:35And that's why you are missing, you only have to worry about 5.
01:37So you go up to 5.
01:39Here you go to the picture that you have to enjoy.