Rock Insurance has launched a guide for travel agents to help them keep up to date with travel restrictions in popular holiday destinations.
The guide will be hosted on Rock Insurance’s insurefor.com website and Rock Insurance will be the primary sponsor.
Steve Endacott, Rock Insurance chairman, said: “With travel restrictions changing virtually daily at the moment, it is hard for individual travel agents to keep 100% up to date with what Covid-19 tests are required to enter which country or when there is suddenly a blanket ban on people entering a country from the UK.
“Rather than have lots of agents constantly digging through poorly laid-out government sites, I thought it would be a good idea to pool resources and produce one constantly updated ‘source of truth’ for the travel industry.”
Antony Martin, Rock Insurance managing director, added: “Agents and consumers have been accessing our Covid-friendly travel insurance products throughout the pandemic and it’s logical to provide this essential information.
“The constant FCDO changes and government travel bans have made it extremely difficult for consumers to book their travel arrangements.”
Endacott commissioned marketing outsourcing specialist The Content Gym to produce the guide, which will be updated regularly to reflect changes in restrictions to any of the top 30 beach holiday destinations.
The guide will be available free to individual travel agents, but companies will only be able to access it for use with customers if they co-sponsor the site alongside Rock.
Endacott said: “In the current Covid-19 decimated travel world, it’s important we all pull together and minimise costs by sharing resources.
“The travel restrictions guide is just one of many ways we can work together and I’m glad Rock Insurance is able to play its part in making this a reality.”
Rock Insurance’s website insurefor.com site sells travel insurance that covers the inability to travel due to a positive Covid-19 test and offers full medical cover if a customer becomes ill while on holiday.