Cut price holidays: the traps that can spoil your summer | Enquête d'action | W9

30 million French people go on vacation every summer. With the crisis, the trend is more than ever towards cheap holidays. We investigated cut-price offers and discovered that behind the fine promises there are sometimes some very bad deals. Unexpected extras, forced sales, deplorable conditions of cleanliness and safety: certain professionals in the tourism business have no scruples with regard to their customers. In the rental sector some adverts are just too attractive to be true. Internet swindlers cheat holidaymakers by offering villas that don’t exist or which they don’t really own. And summer is also the season for markets. Manna from heaven for certain vendors who don’t hesitate to pass off very poor products as genuine regional ones.