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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

Balcony falls: holiday companies are right to take a zero-tolerance attitude to risky behaviour

Charlotte Hindle

Simon Calder, also known as The Man Who Pays His Way, has been writing about travel for The Independent since 1994. In his weekly opinion column, he explores a key travel issue – and what it means for you.

With so much happening in the world of travel, you may have missed two tragic tales from the same Spanish island resort in the past three weeks. On 23 June, John McKenna, a 22-year-old from Carlisle, died after falling from a hotel balcony in San Antonio in Ibiza late at night. This week, a 35-year-old British male died in the same resort in similar circumstances.

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