Travellers told boozy antics may invalidate their insurance

Holidaymakers have been warned that drunken antics on foreign soil could invalidate their insurance policies this week.

According to the Association of British travel Agents (Abta) if a holidaymaker has an accident due to excessive alcohol consumption any possessions they lose along the way may not be covered.

Frances Tuke, spokesperson for Abta said: "It is an insurance policy issue.

"Most insurance policies are not valid if the cause of an accident is because of drinking. That is the conditions that they set and that is what people need to be aware of."

She added that there has been a crack-down in certain destinations recently to prevent binge drinking and notes that some countries are taking a harder line on this than others.

Expedia's 2007 Best Tourist League revealed that Brits are considered to be among the five worst nations of holidaymakers in the world.

The firm's survey revealed that Brits are considered the third biggest holiday spenders, the meanest tippers and the second worst dressed tourists - second only to the Americans

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