{"id":20516,"date":"2016-07-22T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/your-holiday-is-booked-then-the-firm-goes-bust-have-you-lost-your-money\/"},"modified":"2016-07-22T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T10:02:50","slug":"your-holiday-is-booked-then-the-firm-goes-bust-have-you-lost-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/your-holiday-is-booked-then-the-firm-goes-bust-have-you-lost-your-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Your holiday is booked \u2013 then the firm goes bust. Have you lost your money?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNot if the company was registered with Atol, which is why it\u2019s important to check for the logo when you bookThe collapse of LowCostHolidays, which has left 110,000 holidaymakers out of pocket, has turned the spotlight on how vulnerable people are to booking through websites that appear to be British but are in fact based overseas, sometimes with almost zero financial protection.Victims of LowCost\u2019s collapse are set to be offered just \u00a37.50 each, after it emerged that the Majorca-based company was reliant on the local Balearic island\u2019s travel bond scheme, rather than the UK\u2019s Atol scheme which would have repaid them in full. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Not if the company was registered with Atol, which is why it\u2019s important to check...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-5kU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25657,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/john-lewis-credit-card-wont-cover-me-if-travel-firm-fails\/","url_meta":{"origin":20516,"position":0},"title":"John Lewis credit card won't cover me if travel firm fails","date":"September 10, 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