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THE TRAVEL TRADE EDITION
MAY 2017 • ISSUE 00
ITIJ launches Travel Trade Edition Stop the press! ITIJ is launching a brand new pared-down version of the Journal, designed with the travel trade in mind Taking content from ITIJ, and adding in extra news that is relevant to the trade audience, ITIJ’s Travel Trade Edition will be distributed to travel agents and tour operators in the UK. This new version of the magazine will give travel agents a new avenue to find out about the travel insurance marketplace, giving them insights into trends in the industry. The Travel Trade Edition will also cover health alerts, immunisation recommendations and disease outbreaks, so that agents can be more aware of the dangers that are lurking in the destinations to which they are sending their clients; and trends in the global travel industry will be identified and analysed to show how travellers are reacting to events around the world. Also included in this new publication will be longer articles on issues such as travel agent duty of care, gap year travel habits, cruising and emerging destinations. With geopolitical violence, civil unrest and terrorism higher on travellers’ radars than ever before, ITIJ can offer travel agents a unique insight into what kinds of risks travellers are taking, and how best these risks can be mitigated. Providing assistance to tourists, expats and business travellers is a complex business, and by educating travel trade personnel, who are often responsible for organising trips, about the problems experienced by these travellers, the insurance industry can work better with its partners to offer the right cover at the right time. If you want to get your brand in front of UK travel agents, then this is your opportunity to reach them through the powerful medium of a recognised print publication.
Pain from claims in Spain More British holidaymakers are choosing Spain for their city breaks, long weekends in the sunshine and annual two-week getaways. Inevitably, this means more related claims for travel insurers to deal with Analysis from UK-based Direct Line Travel Insurance reveals that of the 600,000-plus travel insurance claims made by British
holidaymakers in 2016, almost a quarter (150,000) were claims for holidays in Spain. Taken over the course of the year, this is over 400 individual claims every day and almost three times more than the US and France, totalling over £75 million. Further analysis shows that one in eight (12 per cent) of the claims made in 2016 exceeded £1,000. Tom Bishop, head of travel insurance at Direct Line, commented: “It is not surprising
to see tourist hotspots such as Spain, the US, France and Greece appearing as the most popular destinations, and shows that holidaymakers are just as likely to fall unwell, lose baggage or need to cancel their holiday whether they are hopping over the pond or just crossing the Channel.” Year-on-year, the number of travel insurance claims rose by more than 22,000 (four
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