Campaign for EU-wide accommodation safety standards

Foreign travel advice: The travel trade is trying to ramp up a campaign for EU-wide safety standards, to try and ensure there will be no more similar tragedies to the deaths in Corfu. Yet all this seems to be just too little too late.

However in our opinion, it should be governments that put pressure on Greece and the EU not the travel trade… Although for a country that relies heavlily on tourism they are pretty stupid..

Its shameful that with all the waste and hot air spouted in Brussels – There are still no EU-wide minimum health and safety standards for accommodation.

For such a small cost, all holiday makers should take a carbon monoxide detector with them when you travel abroad to ensure your safety.

Greece is heavlily reliant on tourism yet seems to be incapable of grasping the simple fact that safety is hight on tourists agenda when on holiday

Just last year 2009, there was further carbon monoxide poisoning tragedy, when two young men in their 20s succumbing to the odorless, poisonous gas in separate incidents at the 4-star Hotel Nepheli in Thessaloniki.

The owned of the Nepheli Hotel in Thessaloniki has been charged with the deaths of the two holiday makers aged 27 and 28.

The 2 guests who passed away from carbon monoxide poisoning were staying in different rooms and both died within 24 hours.

An investigation was carried out and reports say that the fault was with a natural gas boiler which was installed as part of the hotel’s heating system 4 years ago.

The owner of the hotel claimed that when the gas engineers fitting the boiler they said that it would not require servicing.

Abta is renewing its calls for the European Commission to ensure all holiday accommodation across Europe is safe, following the acquittal of the Thomas Cook reps Nicola Carson and Richard Gibson on Tuesday.