Damages ruling ‘unlikely’ to affect package holidays

HOLIDAY firms are unlikely to make any significant changes to package tours following a Supreme Court ruling in favour of a woman who tripped in a Spanish hotel.

Falcon Holidays contested a High Court ruling that the travel firm was liable to compensate the holidaymaker for her injuries even though the accident happened abroad.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Could upheld the lower court’s decision, saying European laws which became part of Irish law in 1995 made the firm liable.