We consider a stationary regularly varying time series which can be expressed as a function of a geometrically ergodic Markov chain. We obtain practical conditions for the weak convergence of weighted versions of the multivariate tail empirical process. These conditions include the so-called geometric drift or Foster-Lyapunov condition and can be easily checked for most usual time series models with a Markovian structure. We illustrate these conditions on several models and statistical applications.