Miles Morgan Travel chairman Miles Morgan has launched a weekly Covid ‘holiday watch’ in the style of a TV weather forecast.
The update on Covid rates, trends and traffic lights for holiday destinations will appear every Saturday on the miniples’s Facebook page.
Morgan (pictured), who came up with the idea and presents ‘Miles’ Covid Holidaywatch Update’, said the first video had been sent out to clients and received a positive response.
He said: “We blasted it out to clients and got quite a few replies . We are aiming to reassure customers, tell them what’s going on and keep them engaged.”
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In the update, Morgan explained some of the case rates per 100,000 people in different holiday populations, with positive reports of falling numbers of Covid cases in European countries including France, Spain, Turkey and Portugal and flat rates in Greece and Italy.
Many European countries currently have lower case rates than the UK, which is tracking at 663 cases per 100,000, he said.
In the video, he said: “Turkey is still on the red list but cases are dropping and are a lot lower than the UK so we’re hoping, fingers’ crossed, for [the next traffic light update on] September 16, for a change there. Generally, it’s really good news for Europe.”
Morgan also expressed hopes the Maldives, where case rates are “half that of the UK”, might come off the red list at the next traffic light update on September 16 and predicts “a lot more people” will be heading to Mauritius this winter following a relaxation in quarantine rules from this month.
He is less hopeful about the US, where cases are still rising with travel unlikely to take off “for a good few weeks and months” while in Canada the “doors are open” with “incredibly low case rates”, making it a “great destination for the autumn”.
Morgan described the Caribbean as a “mixed picture” but stressed that while cases were going up in Barbados and Antigua, they remained lower than the UK.
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