More than 2,000 British holidaymakers have confirmed that their top fear when travelling abroad is ‘getting ill and ending up in a foreign hospital’, according to new, independent research from on-call telephone interpreter service, i-interpret4u. These findings are also reflective of recent headlines which revealed that hospitals in Spain are more concerned with money than medicine as UK taxpayers who have the misfortune to need emergency treatment while abroad are being ripped off or indeed, turned away if they don’t have adequate travel insurance. [Read more…]
Spain Still Reigns For FX
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Whilst Spain remains the most popular destination in terms of volume of currency transactions in 2011, interestingly, the UK takes second place with 18% of transactions according to the latest data compiled by FX specialist, Currency Index. Almost a quarter of all FX transactions in 2011 (24.99%) were sent to Spain, unsurprising given the […]
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