Marks and Spencer are very generously offering a discount of 20 percent on travel insurance, on top of any other discounts currently applicable.
A spokesman for Marks and Spencer announced the promotion and confirmed that this 20 percent offer is in addition to the 5 percent discount currently given to customers buying their travel insurance online. The offer is also very well time, coming as it does at the beginning of the school holidays.
The cover provided by the Marks and Spencer travel insurance product is very good too, with up to GBP10 million of medical cover, GBP50,000 for personal accidents and GBP6,000 in case the holiday has to be cancelled or curtailed.
Swiftcover are expecting around 100,000 teenagers from the UK will go on holiday this year without their parents – but also without travel insurance.
Young people going on holiday without their parents are one of the highest risk categories of holidaymaker – with all that freedom to explore and a desire to experience new things for the first time. However this means that adequate travel insurance is more important than ever, so Swiftcover would like to see young people making it a part of their holiday planning.
Even though travel insurance does not cover people under the influence of alcohol, something that many teen travellers enjoy, there are still many different situations where travel insurance is still applicable said a Swiftcover spokesperson.
According to the Post Office Insurance division spending on travel has remained constant, with no falls in currency or insurance transactions over the last couple of months.
Post Office insurance sales are unchanged while Euro currency sales are actually up compared with the same time last year, this even though the pound has weakened against the Euro in recent months. Figures show the precise change to be 3.2 percent over June and July.
According to the information gained Post Office Insurance customers are heading for the usual holiday spots such as Spain, Greece and France. The flight is not too long and they are pretty much assured great weather.