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The Secret Tourist

Episode 1

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

Matt Allwright re-creates popular scams on unsuspecting tourists abroad. He demonstrates a hotel room theft and a fake day trip con.

Plus a family of Secret Tourists investigate a typical package holiday. The Woods family from Dunstable travel to the Dominican Republic. With help from hygiene expert Lisa Ackerley, the secret tourists make some shocking revelations about the health, hygiene and safety at the resort which could risk lives and close down the hotel. Matt turns up to confront the resort manager.

Carole Machin investigates doctors on the Spanish island of Tenerife after reports of over-treating and over-charging tourists. Will the healthy undercover reporter be given expensive and unnecessary treatment when she pays a visist?

The Secret Tourist team has the holiday from hell, so you don’t have to. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Matt Allwright
Participant:
Carole Machin
Executive Producer:
Bridget Boseley

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