Tourists take £7bn of gadgets

AXA says UK Holidaymakers will take more than £7bn worth of electronic gadgets on holiday with up to £1.61bn uninsured as only 77% have travel insurance and only 49% have personal possessions cover on their home insurance.

The average adult will take £424 worth of kit including phones, laptops, MP3 players, DVD players, cameras and camcorders. A group total will reach on average £738 of electronic equipment. And with children add another £100 or more to include electronic games such as Nintendo DS or Gameboys.

No cover in the hold

And 29% of people will pack some, or all, of these items in their hold luggage where potentially neither their home or travel cover will protect them.

AXA calculates that the average suitcase of holiday clothes is worth around £450, roughly the same as the electronic luggage we carry with us although per item considerably less.

Nearly 90% will take a mobile while only 58% will take a watch and 48% any jewellery. The average holiday party will take at least two phones with them.