{"id":83115,"date":"2021-12-03T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/?p=83115"},"modified":"2021-12-03T10:30:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T10:30:42","slug":"omicron-causes-another-spike-in-travel-insurance-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytravelleader.com\/where-to-stay\/omicron-causes-another-spike-in-travel-insurance-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron causes another spike in travel insurance sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel insurance sales have increased 53% since news of the omicron Covid-19 variant hit, according to travel insurance comparison site Squaremouth.com.<\/p>\n<p>Travel insurance demand had already been on the rise in recent months, Squaremouth said, but omicron has caused sales to rise &#8220;to an all-time high.&#8221; The delta variant of Covid-19 only bumped sales by 20%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Related: U.S. will implement tighter protocols for international travel<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;A new and highly transmittable variant can certainly be a cause of health concerns among travelers,&#8221; Squaremouth chief marketing officer Megan Moncrief said in a statement. &#8220;But the implications go beyond that, to include border closures and quarantine restrictions that can be difficult to accommodate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Squaremouth warned that travel insurance will not necessarily cover travelers for those eventualities. While most policies do cover those who contract Covid-19, only some will enable travelers to cancel if there is a government-issued travel warning for a destination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cancel-for-any-reason policies would enable travelers to do just as the name implies, but they are more expensive than standard policies and must be bought within a short window after a trip is booked.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelweekly.com\/Travel-News\/Travel-Agent-Issues\/Omicron-spike-travel-insurance-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel insurance sales have increased 53% since news of the omicron Covid-19 variant hit, according to travel insurance comparison site<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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