Danes going on holiday are being advised to confirm their credit cards have purchase protection plans

700 Danes, who booked holidays with the now-bankrupt travel agency Hansen Rejser, are seeking compensation from Rejsegarantifonden

Shifa Rahaman

Rejsegarantifonden, Denmark’s travel guarantee fund, has just announced that it will not be compensating the 700 Danes who booked holidays with the now-bankrupt travel agency Hansen Rejser.

The fund, which only covers package holidays and, in some cases, flight tickets, will be unable to offer compensation for the hotel accommodation most customers have booked through the agency.

For everything else, there’s Mastercard
 Rejsegarantifonden has instead asked customers to get in touch with the hotels directly, to see if they can cancel their bookings. If that proves difficult, their only other option is to call their credit card company and hope their cards have a generous purchase protection plan.

“If they’ve paid with a Mastercard [or the like], then they hopefully have good travel insurance. So they should contact their bank and see if they can apply to have the money returned,” Birgitte Fjeldhoff, director of Rejsegarantifonden, told DR.

TOP STORIES

Connect club

Connect Club is your gateway to a vibrant programme of events and an international community in Denmark.

Sign up here

Career

  • How internationals can benefit from joining trade unions

    How internationals can benefit from joining trade unions

    Being part of a trade union is a long-established norm for Danes. But many internationals do not join unions – instead enduring workers’ rights violations. Find out how joining a union could benefit you, and how to go about it.

  • Internationals in Denmark rarely join a trade union

    Internationals in Denmark rarely join a trade union

    Internationals are overrepresented in the lowest-paid fields of agriculture, transport, cleaning, hotels and restaurants, and construction – industries that classically lack collective agreements. A new analysis from the Workers’ Union’s Business Council suggests that internationals rarely join trade unions – but if they did, it would generate better industry standards.

  • Novo Nordisk overtakes LEGO as the most desirable future workplace amongst university students

    Novo Nordisk overtakes LEGO as the most desirable future workplace amongst university students

    The numbers are especially striking amongst the 3,477 business and economics students polled, of whom 31 percent elected Novo Nordisk as their favorite, compared with 20 percent last year.

Want to advertise your job with CPH Post?

Contact us

Jobs